Textile fragment with flowering plants and birds
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowering plants and birds
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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
14 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10.5 x 7 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.433
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Catalogue text
A flowering plant with a bird perched on it is repeated throughout; the bird turns its head. The pattern is densely designed and is printed red against a white ground.
Selvedge; the pattern is printed beyond it. The size of the block can be defined from the repetition of certain design peculiarities; it was 10.5 cm. x 7 cm. The reverse is less saturated with 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. 426 on p. 126 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 126 fig. 426
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