Textile fragment with stylized trees, and fruits or flowers
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees, and fruits or flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with mordant, dyed brown, resist-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with remains of stitching in blue flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 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.
EA1990.1131
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of stylized trees, similar to Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129]. The trees have faint, brown outlines. They have three fruits or flowers inside, and small white and blue dots surround them. They are blue, red, and white on a red ground, and the space between them is filled with white tendrils and bunches of fruit.
The reverse shows more dye saturation for red and blue, but the brown outlines that were first applied to the fabric appear only partly on the reverse. There are remains of blue stitching.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. 1124 on p. 339 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 339, vol. ii p. 339 fig. 1124
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