Textile fragment with stylized trees and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and flower-heads
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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, and dyed red, pink, 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
18 x 14.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 13 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.
EA1990.867
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized trees or elongated leaves alternate with flower-heads represented in profile and set one above the other. Both designs are filled with red and have delicate brown outlines. The base is arranged as half-medallions, filled with red. The ground is white. In addition there is a narrow red band with a row of tripod design.
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. 861 on p. 253 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 253 fig. 861
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