Textile fragment with tendrils, flower-heads, small flowers, and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, flower-heads, small flowers, and arches
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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
35 x 23.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
block (widest band) 10.5 x 10.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.572
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands with rows of rosettes and small, linked arches, white against a brown ground; these are set on either side of a wider band with separate tendrils and flower-heads. A second wide band has thick, swirling tendrils and small flowers, and a single brown rosette imposed on it. The two wide bands otherwise have their designs in white against a red ground.
Selvedge; the design bands are at right angles to it. The block used for the widest band had a size of 10.5 cm. x 10.5 cm. The reverse shows slightly less 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. 565 on pp. 167-168 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 168, vol. ii p. 167 fig. 565
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