Textile fragment with hen and chicks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hen and chicks
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, probably formerly quilted, printed with black, and dyed purple; with a stitch in pale-red silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 26 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.
EA1990.1183
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Catalogue text
A naturalistic depiction of a hen with her chicks. The chickens are white but outlined in black, against a pale purple background.
A single pale red stitch of silk remains in the fabric. The fabric might once have been quilted. There is no evidence for assigning the textile an Indian provenance.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. 1179 on p. 356 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 356 fig. 1179
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