Textile fragment with stylized trees and script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and script
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Associated place
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Date
13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 18 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 15 x 12 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.374
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized trees alternating with leaf or tree shapes; a second band contains script. The latter band has beaded sides. The pattern is white against a red background.
The size of the block used is 15 cm. x 12 cm. The reverse is almost completely saturated with dye. The inscription cannot be read, but suggests a 13th-century or slightly later source.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. 372 on p. 111 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 111 fig. 372
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