Textile fragment with S-shapes and crescents
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes and crescents
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
8 / 6 threads/cm (thread count)
53 x 77 cm (warp x weft) -
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.
EA1990.901
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Catalogue text
A large field with small, brown s-shapes on a light ground, surrounded by chevron borders and large, red crescent shapes at the end.
Two selvedges. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. 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. 895 on p. 263 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 263 fig. 895
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