Textile fragment with leaves, flowers, and stems
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, flowers, and stems
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-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
22 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.418
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Catalogue text
Large, serrated leaves and flowers with serrated petals, emerging from solid, curving stems. The pattern is red on a white background.
The reverse is slightly more blurred 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. 411 on p. 122 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 122 fig. 411
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