Textile fragment with dotted tendrils, leaves, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dotted tendrils, leaves, and rosettes
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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 remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 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.
EA1990.832
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Catalogue text
Thick white tendrils with brown outlines and dots inside, with leaves emerging and rosettes superimposed, set against a red background. There also are remains of a band with a design in brown lines on a white ground.
Remains of stitching in one corner. 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. 830 on pp. 244-245 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 244 fig. 830
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