Textile fragment with and oval, tendrils, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with and oval, tendrils, and flowers
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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, and dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
23.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 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.
EA1990.851
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of white tendril and small flowers on brown ground, and a red oval with a pearl border; the pattern is similar to the continuous design field of Cat. no. 842 [EA1990.847].
The reverse is 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. 845 on pp. 248-249 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 248 fig. 845
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