Tab with stylized flowering plant, rosette, and vine
Details
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Title
Tab with stylized flowering plant, rosette, and vine
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with a flat seam in flax; with additional stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.5 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.180
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a tab with a continuous vine as a surround, squares in the lower corners, and a flowering plant inside the main field, as in Cat. no. 164 [EA1990.172]. The tab is sewn on to a ?border with a narrow band of continuous scroll and the beginning of a plant design. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The two fragments are sewn together with a flat seam. There is some stitching around the outline of the tab.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. 172 on p. 48 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 48 fig. 172
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