Textile fragment with swirling leaves and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling leaves 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 resist, and mordant-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
13 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 22 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.
EA1990.523
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Catalogue text
Separate swirling leaves and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 41 [EA1990.49]; in addition there is the beginning of a band, the design partly made up from dots, probably as in the undulating vine with leaves of Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.533]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is brown and red.
The reverse shows more dye saturation 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. 516 on pp. 153-154 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 161, vol. ii p. 153 fig. 516
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