Textile fragment with tendrils, fruit, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, fruit, and 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, applied with mordant, block-printed or partly hand-applied with resist, and 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
17 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1061
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Catalogue text
Curving, white tendrils with small fruit and leaves on a red and blue ground. A triple line of small, white dots separate the tendrils from a large, blue leaf with a white outline.
The resist may be applied by hand rather than block-printed. The reverse shows considerably more blue dye saturation than the surface. The fragment is partly similar to Cat. no. 1053 [EA1990.1060].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. 1054 on p. 313 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 313 fig. 1054
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