Textile fragment with stylized tendrils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized tendrils and leaves
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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, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 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.
EA1990.364
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Catalogue text
A field of large, stylized tendrils with leaves attached, some heart-shaped and filled with red, while otherwise the forms are defined by red outlines only. The pattern is red on a white ground; there is an additional small corner which shows a narrow band with eight-petalled rossettes; here the design is white against a red ground.
Selvedge.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. 357 on p. 106 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 106 fig. 357
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