Textile fragment with stylized flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized flower-heads
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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 brown or purple, and possibly dyed pale-green
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.438
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of diagonal rows of stylized flowers-heads seen in profile, and a narrow band of a continuous vine with flower-heads emerging. The pattern is dark brown or purple against a light ground, possibly once dyed pale green.
It is not possible to differentiate surface and reverse; dye saturation and precision of design seem identical.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. 431 on p. 127 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 127 fig. 431
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