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.
EA1990.240
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Catalogue text
Centralized floral design, with an elaborate, twelve-petalled rosette for each block, and tendrils and leaves emerging. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
A flat (run-and-fell) seam attaches a small fragment, with remnants of a continuous vine pattern arranged in a band. The size of the printing block was 11.5 cm. x 11.5 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. 231 on p. 66 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 66 fig. 231
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