Textile fragment with swirling tendrils and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling tendrils and flower-heads
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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 mordant-dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 20 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.
EA1990.852
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Catalogue text
Swirling tendrils and flower-heads, as well as the fragment of a medallion, red with white outlines and brown details against a red ground.
A carefully done print on fine cloth. The reverse shows more 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. 846 on p. 249 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 249 fig. 846
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