Textile fragment with palmettes and scrolls
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with palmettes and scrolls
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and possibly pale-green
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 14.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.885
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Catalogue text
A band with rows of white palmettes, separated by white scrolls. The background has red and white stripes. On either side of the band the fabric is plain, probably originally dyed pale green.
The design is not characteristic for the collection; it could be European, possibly 19th century. Newberry's own comment was 'Turkish'. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 879 on p. 258 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 258 fig. 879
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