Textile fragment with stylized tendrils and crenellations
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized tendrils and crenellations
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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 mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 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.
EA1990.400
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Catalogue text
A wide band filled with stylized tendrils, on either side of it is a border with crenellations. The tendrils are white against a red background, while the crenellations are mirror-imaged in red.
The reverse is less saturated with the dye 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. 393 on p. 116 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 116 fig. 393
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