Textile fragment with stylized tree, flowering plants, vine, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized tree, flowering plants, vine, and flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 18th century (1701 - 1800)
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, and dyed grey-blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 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.
EA1990.459
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Catalogue text
Two bands, the wider one with a stylized tree and flowering plants, the second one with a continuous vine and flower-heads, all seen in profile. The flowers are of different varieties, but all have extremely fine stems. The pattern is grey-blue against a white ground.
The reverse shows very little of the pattern, but has an overall blue tinge.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. 452 on p. 133 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 133 fig. 452
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