Textile fragment with rosettes and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
probably 19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
52 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 12 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.464
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Catalogue text
A continuous design with irregularly placed, small and large red rosettes, as well as flower-heads seen in side view. Between the flowers there are parallel red lines of different lengths, simulating shading.
Selvedge, with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. Probably 19th century.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 457 on p. 134 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 134 fig. 457
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