Textile fragment with flowers and interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and interlace
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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, pink, 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
22 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.866
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Catalogue text
A field of large and small flowers linked by interlace and leaves. The large flower-heads are pink with red outlines, the interlace and leaves have brown outlines on a white ground. A red border has a band of white oval ?leaves.
The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 860 on pp. 252-253 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 252 fig. 860
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