Textile fragment with carnations and tulips, and part of a tear-drop
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Title
Textile fragment with carnations and tulips, and part of a tear-drop
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
possibly linen, block-printed, applied with grey, and dyed yellow; with stitching in flax
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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 12 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 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.
EA1990.468
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Catalogue text
A border band with carnation and tulips, as in Cat. no. 443 [EA1990.450], and the fragment of a large tear-drop shape and yellow carnation, as in Cat. no. 460 [EA1990.467]. The pattern is grey or yellow against a white background.
Selvedge with stitching along it. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 461 on p. 135 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 135 fig. 461
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