Tab with stylized tree
On display
Details
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Title
Tab with stylized tree
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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 and brown; with a hem in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
10 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.1077
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Catalogue text
A single tab containing a stylized, white tree with brown flowers set against a red background.
The tab has a carefully sewn hem. There is slightly more dye saturation on the reverse than on 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. 1070 on p. 318 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 318 fig. 1070
