Textile fragment with pearl garland and stylized mythical animal
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pearl garland and stylized mythical animal
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.5 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.166
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Catalogue text
Pearl garland containing a stylized mythical animal, with an elephant's trunk and a lion's tail. Stylized trees with beaded stems serve as columns between the garlands. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The pearl garland is discussed extensively by Pfister 1938: 47-9.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. 158 on p. 43 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 43 fig. 158
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