Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers, and leaves
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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 brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
46.5 x 37 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.995
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of large tendrils with flowers and leaves. The tendrils either are blue on the blue ground, with brown outlines, or they are made up from rows of small, white overlapping rosettes. The flower heads are red and white, all with brown outlines.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for brown and red, but more 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. 989 on pp. 293-294 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 293 fig. 989
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