Textile fragment with stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized 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, mordant-dyed red, hand-applied 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
23 x 14.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.1127
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Catalogue text
A large version of the stylized plants seen in Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120]. Here they have blue stems, and their heads are partly filled with blue. They are surrounded by white tendrils against a red ground, and they are confined within a blue, irregular frame. Additional designs are too fragmentary to read.
It is uncertain how the mordant was applied. The resist applied prior to the blue dye was drawn by hand. As the previous examples, the design relates to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim.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. 1120 on p. 337 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 337 fig. 1120
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