Textile fragment with birds and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with birds and tendrils
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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, dyed red, and resist-dyed light-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
6 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1149
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Catalogue text
Tendrils with red outlines and small red and white birds against a light blue background, identical to Cat. no. 1141 [EA1990.1147].
There is no difference in dye saturation between surface and reverse. As the previous fragment, this is identical in design and technical detail to Cat. no. 1141 [EA1990.1147], and certainly was once part of the same fragment.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. 1143 on p. 346 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 346 fig. 1143
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