Textile fragment with stylized leaves or trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized leaves or trees
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, mordant- and resist-dyed red and blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1133
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Catalogue text
Stylized leaves or trees, red with white details inside, a blue outline and white, dotted surrounds. The background is blue and filled with white tendrils.
The reverse shows slightly 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. 1126 on p. 339 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 340, vol. ii p. 39 fig. 1126
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