Textile fragment with stylized leaves, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized leaves, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.5 x 32 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 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.
EA1990.1137
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Catalogue text
Large stylized leaves, related to the plant design of Cat. no. 1121 [EA1990.1128]. The leaves are red on a blue background, with white ornamental details added. Each has a frame following its outline, made up from two parallel white lines. The background is filled with additional white tendrils and bunches of fruit.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for red than the surface, but more for the blue.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. 1130 on p. 341 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 342-343, vol. ii p. 341 fig. 1130
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