Textile fragment with leaves, rosettes, and vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, rosettes, and vine
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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, and 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
11 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.978
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of paired leaves alternating with small rosettes, white with brown outlines and some red details on a blue ground. A row of small triangles and dots, brown and red on white ground, separate this band from a second design that shows a large white continuous vine, with brown outlines and some blue details in the attached flower-heads. In addition there is the beginning of a pearl border.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for red and brown, but additional blue.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. 972 on p. 289 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 289 fig. 972
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