Textile fragment with dotted leaves, interlace, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dotted leaves, interlace, and flowers
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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 probably mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 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.
EA1990.811
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of stylized, separate leaves, each with a beaded surround and partly filled with white dots, all in white outlines against a red ground. Adjacent to it is a band with two interlacing lines filled with a single row of dots, and with flowers and leaves set between the interlace. This design is red and brown on a white ground.
The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface, and certainly some resist was stamped onto the surface, but it is likely that the mordant for the brown also was stamped.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. 809 on p. 238 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 239, vol. ii p. 238 fig. 809
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