Textile fragment with swirling leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling leaves
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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 brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (width) -
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.
EA1990.296
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Catalogue text
Separate leaves, some arranged as swirling floral shapes, as in Cat. no. 41 [EA1990.49]. The leaves are light against a brown background.
The pattern is blurred on the reverse. The width of the block was 9 cm.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. 287 on p. 86 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 86 fig. 287
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