Textile fragment with flower-heads, leaves, and stalks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flower-heads, leaves, and stalks
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 20 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.
EA1990.412
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Catalogue text
Swirling plant stalks with leaves and flower-heads attached, the latter seen in profile. the pattern is red against a light ground.
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. 405 on p. 120 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 120 fig. 405
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