Textile fragment with birds, possibly tree-shapes, and stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with birds, possibly tree-shapes, and stylized plants
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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, 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
16.5 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.167
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands, one with stylized, linked plants with interlacing leaf terminals, and the other with a small arcade containing a half-rosette or stylized ?leaf, in alternation. Above the bands, pairs of birds are facing a tree or ornamental, vertical structure, alternating with highly abstract ?tree-shapes. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
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. 159 on p. 43 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 43 fig. 159
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