Textile fragment with flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers
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Associated place
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Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and applied with grey, or dyed light-purple
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 22.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.889
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Catalogue text
A wide, red band with white flowers turns a corner at right angles. The flowers appear in side-view. On one side of the band are narrow bands of chevrons and a band of indistinct red and brown shapes; on the other side is the beginning of a red pattern on white, set off with a narrow border of a continuous vine, white on red.
Selvedge. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The band of indistinct shapes is probably similar to a row of linked crowns appearing in a fragment in the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan [Kelsey 94139]. The original card had the comment '18th-century'.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. 883 on pp. 259-260 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 367, vol. ii p. 259 fig. 883
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