Textile fragment with bands of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant and dyed brown, mordant-dyed red, and dyed light-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.1154
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Catalogue text
Red bands containing a row of small, pale blue flowers alternate with white bands with tiny, brown spots and a single row of blue and white flowers. A solid red band is set between.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The light blue seems to be applied to 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. 1149 on p. 348 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 348 fig. 1149
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