Textile fragment with stalk, leaves, and Persian-style script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stalk, leaves, and Persian-style script
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
42 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block (main field) 11 x 8 cm estimated (length x width)
block (border) 14 x 4 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.
EA1990.435
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Catalogue text
A wide design area shows a large, continuous and undulating plant stalk, with leaves emerging on one side only, but with small shoots on both sides; this is set against a background with a small abstract pattern. In addition there are two border bands at right angles to each other, with stars and cartouches containing script imitation derived from Persian. The pattern is red against a white ground.
Selvedge. The block size for the continuous design is 11 cm. x 8 cm., for the border band 14 cm. x 4 cm. 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. 428 on p. 127 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 127 fig. 428
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