Textile fragment with vine and palmettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine and palmettes
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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 resist, and dyed red and blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 10 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.1057
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Catalogue text
A blue band with a large continuous vine and attached palmettes. The vine is white with red outlines, and the band has red and white borders. The design is very similar to Cat. no. 1037 [EA1990.1044].
Selvedge parallel to the band. The dye saturation is virtually identical on surface and reverse.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. 1050 on p. 312 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 312 fig. 1050
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