Textile fragment with dragonflies and flowering plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dragonflies and flowering 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 mordant, and dyed red, brown, and pink; with stitching in mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 30 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 x 10.5 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.
EA1990.848
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of flowering plants, leaves, and dragonflies, white with brown outlines and dark red and pink details. The background is red. Along one side of the fragment is a narrow band with a row of small diamonds and crosses.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12.5 cm. x 10.5 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. 843 on p. 248 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 248 fig. 843
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