Textile fragment with bands of vines and tendrils, crenellations, rosettes, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of vines and tendrils, crenellations, rosettes, and dots
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.610
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Catalogue text
Five parallel narrow bands; two have a continuous vine and tendrils, two have crenellations which can be read as either red or white, and one band has alternating red and brown rosettes against a white ground. The bands are separated by single rows of dots.
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. 603 on p. 178 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 178 fig. 603
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