Textile fragment with stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants
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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 resist, and mordant-dyed red; resist partly removed, and dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 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.
EA1990.911
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized plants that alternate between palmette bases and discs of rosettes supported by semicircles. The top of the plants has the same elongated shape in both versions, although they alternate between blue and white.
The reverse is more saturated with both red and blue than the surface.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. 905 on p. 269 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 270, vol. ii p. 269 fig. 905
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