Textile fragment with flowering trees
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowering trees
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, probably hand-painted with mordant, dyed brown, and resist- and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 25 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.825
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Catalogue text
Large, stylized flowering trees and small tendrils with bunches of ?grapes, as Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823]. The design is white on a red ground, with brown details.
The same design and technical details as for Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823], suggesting that the fragment was part of the same fabric.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. 823 on p. 243 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 242, vol. ii p. 243 fig. 823
