Textile fragment with stylized leaves or trees
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized leaves or trees
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, mordant- and resist-dyed red and blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 26 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.1134
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Catalogue text
Stylized leaves or trees, red with white details and partly filled with light blue, set onto a blue ground and surrounded by white lines and dots. In addition, the background is filled with white tendrils. The pattern is similar to Cat. no. 1126 [EA1990.1133].
The dye saturation for red is virtually identical on surface and reverse, but there is more blue on the reverse.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. 1127 on p. 340 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 340 fig. 1127
