Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, rosettes, and tendrils
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, rosettes, and tendrils
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 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.
EA1990.1036
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a large medallion; the surviving designs include a curving and a diagonal band, both with stylized bodhi tree leaves, small rosettes, and tendrils, and stylized leaves and flowers. The patterns are defined by white outlines and filled with blue or red.
The reverse shows very slightly more dye saturation for the red; there is more blue on the surface, though, and it seems as though the dye was not absorbed through immersion.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. 1029 on p. 305 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 305 fig. 1029
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