Textile fragment with birds and clouds

Textile fragment with birds and clouds

© possibly the artist's estate (object)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with birds and clouds
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Europe (probable) (probable place of creation)

India (possible) (possible place of creation)
Date

late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
Material and technique

cotton, twill and plain woven, printed, and dyed red
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

twill woven;

printed;

dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

35.5 x 55.5 cm (warp x weft)
46 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.1210

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Catalogue text

White birds and clouds against a red background.

Selvedge. Both in weave and design the fabric has nothing in common with the Indo-Egyptian textiles.

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. 1206 on p. 365 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 365 fig. 1206

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