Textile fragment with arches and stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and stylized 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 resist, mordant-dyed red, 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
18.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 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.
EA1990.916
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Catalogue text
A band of arches supported by plant columns, and with a stylized plat inside each arch. The design is white with red outlines, and blue provides the background of the arches.
The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface. In addition to the patterned area there is a wide, red band.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. 910 on p. 270 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 270 fig. 910
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