textile, banner, tent-hanging, curtain
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1079
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Catalogue text
A tab filled with a stylized, axis-symmetrical plant, similar to Cat. no. 173 [EA1990.1078]. The plant is white on a red ground, and there are some blue details. The background is deep blue.
Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 17.5 cm. x 11 cm.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. 1072 on p. 319 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 319 fig. 1072
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