Textile fragment with trees and plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with trees and plants
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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 brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.5 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 8 / 9 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.
EA1990.429
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Catalogue text
A band with trees alternating with plants that have three flower-heads each; additional bands, one filled with single dots, and a design field which is too fragmentary to determine its pattern.
The fragmentary design field has traces of brown dye in addition to the red. 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. 422 p. 125 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 125 fig. 422
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