Textile fragment with stem, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stem, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 11.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.1062
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Catalogue text
A large stem and leaf, red and blue with white outlines and surrounded by small tendrils and bunches of fruit. The leaf contains further, internal red leaf-shapes. See also Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129] and related textiles [EA1990.1113-1141].
Remains of stitching. The reverse shows considerably more 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. 1055 on p. 313 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 313 fig. 1055
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