Textile fragment with stylized trees, a star, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees, a star, and leaves
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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
22 x 7.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 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.
EA1990.934
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Catalogue text
A sequence of three bands, the first with a row of stylized trees alternating with beaded columns, the second with a star set between stylized, paired leaves, and the third with a row of wheels or rosettes. The designs are white and partly filled with blue against a red or deep purple background. Solid blue and red bands separate the pattern bands.
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. 928 on pp. 275-276 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 275 fig. 928
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