Textile fragment with stylized tendrils and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized tendrils 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 or mordant, and dyed red
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 15 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.
EA1990.421
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Catalogue text
Large, stylized tendrils and flowers, the latter partly seen in profile; the tendrils are arranged so that they seem to form a large quatrefoil. The pattern is red against a light background. The interlacing tendrils are similarly arranged as in Cat. no. 397 [EA1990.404].
Surface and reverse show an equal precision of outline.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. 414 on p. 122 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 122 fig. 414
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