Textile fragment with plants, half-medallions, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants, half-medallions, and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
10 x 37 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.601
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Catalogue text
A band with plants emerging from stylized mounds that take the form of half-medallions; a single flower with a thin stem and long petals seen in profile alternates with two asymetrical plants emerging from one base. The design appears in a part of Cat. no. 591 [EA1990.598]. The pattern is white against a red ground. Additional bands with a brown ground are fragmentary.
The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 594 on p. 175 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 175-177, 179, & 182, vol. ii p. 175 fig. 594
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