Textile fragment with stylized plants, tendrils, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants, tendrils, and 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 red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 15 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.
EA1990.615
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Catalogue text
Two wide bands flanked by narrow ones; one with stylized plant forms emerging from mounds shaped like half-medallions, as in Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], the other densely filled with tendrils which have leaves and flower-heads attached. This pattern is brown against a white ground. Two of the narrow bands have a row of diamonds, each filled with a cross. The diamonds are white against a brown ground. The other two bands have a row of crenellations which are reversible and can be read as white or red.
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. 608 on p. 179 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 179 fig. 608
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