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.
EA1990.947
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Catalogue text
Part of a large medallion made up of circles of red, white, and blue petals separated by pearl surrounds, with elaborate tendrils set into the background. All design is defined by brown outlines.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface for both brown and red, but considerably more for the blue.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. 941 on p. 279 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 279-280 & 372, vol. ii p. 278 fig. 941
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