Textile fragment with lobed shapes, possibly leaves
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed shapes, possibly leaves
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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, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed light-blue and dark-blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 31 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 21 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.
EA1990.1028
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Catalogue text
Large, lobed ?leaves are set close together, although not actually linked. They are defined by white outlines on a red ground and contain a central flower crowned by tendrils. A large, trefoil-like white shape is at the tip of each leaf, filled with red tendrils and flowers. The entire design has light and dark blue details added.
For both red and blue, the reverse shows more dye saturation 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. 1021 on p. 303 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 303 fig. 1021
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