Textile fragment with tendrils and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils 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 mordant, and 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
25.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 27 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.
EA1990.884
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of finely drawn tendrils, flowers, and leaves, white on a dark brown ground with red details. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 876 [EA1990.882].
Technical details and design link this and the previous fragment [EA1990.883] to Cat. no. 876 [EA1990.882].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. 878 on p. 258 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 257-258, vol. ii p. 258 fig. 878
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