Textile fragment with part of a large leaf, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
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Title
Textile fragment with part of a large leaf, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with brown, mordant-dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed light-blue; with two repair seams in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
37 x 19 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.
EA1990.1140
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a very large leaf shape, probably related to the design of Cat. no. 1121 [EA1990.1128]. The leaf is light blue and filled with red leaves with white dots. The red background is filled with white tendrils and bunches of fruit.
A thin, brown outline was first applied to the fabric to define the design. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Two seams mend the fabric.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. 1133 on p. 342 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 342 fig. 1133
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