Textile fragment with plants and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants 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
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
48 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 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.
EA1990.602
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Catalogue text
A band with plants growing from stylized mounds; a single flower with a thin stem and long petals, seen in profile, alternates with two plants emerging from one base, as in Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601]. The pattern is white against a red ground. Additional bands with apattern against 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. 595 on p. 175 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 175 fig. 595
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