Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils
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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 and brown; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 16 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.
EA1990.819
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Catalogue text
Thick, highly stylized, red tendrils form an interlace design, and the spaces between the interlace are filled with very small tendrils and dots, identical to Cat. no. 816 [EA1990.818].
The fragment is very close in design and technical details to Cat. no. 816 [EA1990.818]; it may have been originally part of the same fabric. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. There are remains of fine stitching.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. 817 on pp. 240-241 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 240, vol. ii p. 240 fig. 817
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