Textile fragment with stems, leaves, flowers, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stems, leaves, flowers, 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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.612
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Catalogue text
Three parallel bands; two narrow ones have a single row of white rosettes against a brown ground, and a wide band shows thin, curving stems with small leaves and flowers emerging, seen in side-view, and with a large leaf at the end. The design in this band is white against a red background.
The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 605 on p. 178 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 178 fig. 605
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