Textile fragment with squares and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares 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, possibly 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
54.5 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.714
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Catalogue text
A continuous design with large, connected squares, red with white outlines, and each filled with a white flower containing a second flower.
The reverse shows slightly 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. 707 on p. 208 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 208 fig. 707
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