Textile fragment with tear-drops and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tear-drops and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1038
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Catalogue text
Two blue tear-drop shapes, each with a single, red leaf holding another blue tear-drop filled with white dots. The fragment is similar to Cat. no. 1030 [EA1990.1037].
For both red and blue, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 1031 on p. 306 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 306 fig. 1031
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