Textile fragment with bands of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.388
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands with small sprigs of flowers, set up in single rows and seen in profile. The pattern is white against a red background.
The reverse is considerably less saturated with dye 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. 386 on p. 114 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 114 fig. 386
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