Textile fragment with flowers and vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and vines
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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, brown, and pale-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
63 x 77 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 10 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.
EA1990.1194
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Catalogue text
A large, red field with diagonal rows of white flowers with brown outlines, and with small flowers that are filled with pale blue. On three sides there is a brown border with continuous white vines and flower, some filled with pale blue.
Two selvedges. 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. 1190 on p. 359 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 359 fig. 1190
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