Textile fragment with linked branches and carnations
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked branches and carnations
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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 and pink
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
25.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 17 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.
EA1990.874
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of linked, white branches with a single row of white berries attached on either side. The branches are arranged to form a grid pattern, with a carnation inside each compartment. Each carnation is surrounded by pink tendrils, only faintly visible against the red ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 868 on p. 255 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 255 fig. 868
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