Textile fragment with flowers and Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and Arabic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and dark-brown or purple
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
43 x 24 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 19 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.
EA1990.872
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of small and large, red flowers supported by fine, brown curving stems and leaves on a white background; in addition there is a wide border with two bands of curving leaves on either side of a band with white medallions on a red ground. The medallions contain an Arabic inscription; for its translation see the previous textile [EA1990.871], which is altogether identical in design.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fragment is identical in design and technical details to Cat. no. 865 [EA1990.871], and both were certainly part of the same fabric.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. 866 on p. 255 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 255 fig. 866
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