textile
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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.
EA1990.161
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Catalogue text
Two wide bands of rosettes and lines of dots, arranged at right angles to each other; the rosettes are very ornate and vary in composition. In addition there are two narrow bands of dots, as well as a row of arches filled with stylized plants, each arch separated by a tree or column. A third wide band has a row of stylized trees or flowers alternating with symmetrical leaf shapes supported by a beaded stem. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The centres of rosettes and trees are light blue. There is a selvedge and the remains of some stitching. Also published in Barnes 1992b: 11.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. 153 on p. 42 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. pp. 65-66, vol. ii p. 42 fig. 153 & vol. i pl. 3
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