Textile fragment with Persian script and floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Persian script and floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
16th century (1501 - 1600) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 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.
EA1990.599
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Catalogue text
A band with script, brown on a white ground; a large pattern of floral designs seen in profile, red on a white ground.
It is not possible to detect the method of mordant application. The script is Persian, dated on style after 1500.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. 592 on p. 175 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 175 fig. 592
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