Textile fragment with stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.5 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.360
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Catalogue text
A band of with two versions of stylized trees; one has the shape of a single bodhi tree leaf, with two additional branches emerging on either side of the tip, the other has seven branches in the shape of serrated leaves and an offshoot emerging on either side of the base. The trunks of both trees are filled with beaded dots. The design is red against a white background. Adjacent is a narrow band of alternating six-petalled rosettes and small circles, white against a red background.
The pattern is very slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 353 on p. 105 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 105-106, vol. ii p. 105 fig. 353
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