Textile fragment with deer, flowers, and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with deer, flowers, and hearts
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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, dyed red, brown, and possibly green, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
46 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 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.
EA1990.1095
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Catalogue text
A wide red band with large, light-green tendrils linked in heart shapes separates two areas with an overall design. One has an ornate floral pattern, red and blue on white and linked by fine, brown lines. The other has eight-pointed flowers, crest shapes, and small deer, all defined by fine, brown lines on a white ground, and filled with red and blue details.
Selvedge with puncture marks from stitching, but no thread left. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but more for the blue.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. 1088 on p. 325 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 325 fig. 1088
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