Textile fragment with vine leaves, flowers, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine leaves, flowers, and tendrils
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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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.1019
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Catalogue text
Red vine leaves and flowers with white outlines are linked by interlacing tendrils. The background is dark blue.
There is slightly less dye saturation for the red on the reverse, but heavy additional saturation for the blue.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. 1012 on p. 300 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 300 fig. 1012
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