Textile fragment with flowering plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowering plants
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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, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
41 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 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.
EA1990.431
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Catalogue text
A wide band of naturalistic flowering plants, represented in profile and one above the other; the pattern is white on red ground. Adjacent to the red band are white bands filled with red designs: one has large, red dots, the other is too fragmentaryto determine the pattern.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 424 on p. 125 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 125 fig. 424
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