Textile fragment with linked squares and ornate flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares and ornate flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
mid to late 19th century (1835 - 1890) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and applied with grey
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 42 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 10 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.
EA1990.892
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Catalogue text
A large field of small, linked red squares, each with a white disc containing a tiny red rosette. In addition there is the beginning of a large round design, with a border band and ornate, white flower-heads on a red ground.
Selvedge. 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. 886 on p. 260 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 260 fig. 886
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