Textile fragment with parrots and palmettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with parrots and palmettes
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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 mordant, dyed red and brown, 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
20 x 19 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.1096
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Catalogue text
A border including a corner, with a band of white palmettes partly filled with blue, on a red ground, and a fragment of a large design with white and red parrots, outlined in fine, brown lines against a blue ground.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation for both red and brown. The blue may have been added directly onto the surface without the use of a resist.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. 1089 on p. 326 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 326 fig. 1089
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