Textile fragment with leaves, carnations, and round flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, carnations, and round flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, and applied with grey
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Object type
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Dimensions
89 x 3.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 6 / 8 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.
EA1990.449
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Catalogue text
The border of the same floral design as in Cat. no. 441 [EA1990.448].
This fragment and the previous one [EA1990.448] apparently were part of one fragment. The reverse shows no dye saturation.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. 442 on p. 130 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 130, vol. ii p. 130 fig. 442
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