Textile fragment with elaborate flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with elaborate flowers
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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, dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 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.
EA1990.1106
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of elaborate, symmetrically arranged and linked flowers, defined by white outlines and partly filled with blue. The background is red.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red, but considerably more for blue.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. 1099 on p. 329 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 329 fig. 1099
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