Textile fragment with palm tree, floral design, and part of a pavilion
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with palm tree, floral design, and part of a pavilion
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed, and applied with grey; joined with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 12.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.451
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Catalogue text
Border with a palm tree framed by two tendrils; additional floral designs and part of a pavillion. The pattern is grey against a light background, now heavily soiled.
Selvedge. Two fragments linked by a few warp threads along the selvedge. The fragment was sewn together from two pieces at right angles to the selvedge. The reverse does not show much dye penetration. Probably 18th century.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. 444 on p. 130 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 130 fig. 444
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