Textile fragment with arches and stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and stylized plants
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed red and brown, block-printed with resist, dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 20 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.
EA1990.1072
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Catalogue text
A band of pointed arches with a pearl border. Inside the arch is a red star on blue ground, and the background of the band is red. It is followed by a brown band with fine, white continuous tendrils and red flowers. At right angles to both bands is apattern of stylized, upright plants, each set into a large trefoil or lobed arch with a
pearl border. These lobed surrounds are filled with red or blue and form a complementary symmetry.
For both red and brown, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, but there is more blue. The design is very carefully executed.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. 1065 on p. 316 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 316 fig. 1065
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