Textile fragment with bands of dotted vine, small stars and dots, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted vine, small stars and dots, and flowers
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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, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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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. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 19 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.
EA1990.550
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Catalogue text
A band with a continuous vine made up from dots, as in Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532], and additional designs, one with small stars and dots, the other with small four-petalled flowers; the fragment is similar to Cat. no. 542 [EA1990.549]. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
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. 543 on p. 162 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 162 fig. 543
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