Textile fragment with peacocks and trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with peacocks and 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, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; cotton lining; with stitching, possibly in cotton, and lining stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
additional fabric, along length/width 30 / 30 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.
EA1990.165
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Catalogue text
A motif of peacocks facing each other, flanking a tree, is arranged symmetrically four times around a central floral design with a cross in the middle. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The fabric is sewn into a round shape, following the design. It may have been used as a jar or jug cover, or as a filter.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. 157 on p. 43 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 71-72, vol. ii p. 43 fig. 157
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