Textile fragment with garlands of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with garlands of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed brown, blue, green, and yellow
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
89 x 95.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1217
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Catalogue text
A large textile completely filled with garlands of light and blue flowers, as well as green leaves and stems. The background is yellow.
Two selvedges. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is a print of late 19th- or early 20th-century date, of uncertain origin.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. 1213 on p. 367 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 367 fig. 1213
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