Textile fragment with stylized trees, columns, and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees, columns, and rosettes
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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 mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in blue thread, possibly flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 12.5 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 16 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.
EA1990.546
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Catalogue text
A band of trees and columns, as in Cat. no. 534 [EA1990.541], and a band of four different rosettes, as in Cat. no. 511 [EA1990.518]. There are fragmentary remains of a design field with the same stylized leaves as in Cat. nos. 515 and 516 [EA1990.522 and EA1990.523]. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
Selvedge, with remains of blue stitching along it.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. 539 on p. 161 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 161 fig. 539
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