Tab with stylized plant
Details
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Title
Tab with stylized plant
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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 resist-dyed dark-blue; with remains of stitching in white and blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block 15 x 10 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.1078
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Catalogue text
A tab filled with a stylized, symmetrical plant. The plant is white on a red ground, with some blue details, and the background to the tab is deep blue.
Selvedge. There are the remains of white and blue stitching around the outline of the tab. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation for the red, and considerably more for the blue. The size of the block used was 15 cm. x 10 cm.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. 1071 on pp. 318-319 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 48 & 319, vol. ii p. 318 fig. 1071
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