Textile fragment with tendrils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and leaves
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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
15.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 13 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.
EA1990.850
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of thin, white tendrils with small leaves attached, and set on a red ground; identical to Cat. no. 839 [EA1990.845].
Similarities in design and technical details suggest that the fragment was part of the same fabric as the previous textile [EA1990.845]. 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. 840 on p. 247 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 247 fig. 840
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