Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
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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 dyed blue
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.1094
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of white tendrils with leaves and flowers on a red ground, with small details filled in with blue.
The reverse shows some evidence of resist cracking, creating additional red lines. The blue details seem to have been added directly onto the fabric without a previous resist application.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. 1087 on p. 325 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 325 fig. 1087
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