Textile fragment with interlace, tendrils, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace, tendrils, and leaves
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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 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
35 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.783
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Catalogue text
Small, white tendrils and leaves entirely fill a band with dense interlace. The background is red. On either side is the beginning of a design with large vegetal forms. These have white outlines on a brown ground, and the background is red.
The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 776 on p. 227 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 227 fig. 776
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