Textile fragment with bands of carnations, grapes, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of carnations, grapes, and flower-heads
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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 and purple, and applied with light-blue or green (possibly by hand)
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Object type
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Dimensions
75 x 40.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 24 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.
EA1990.1235
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Catalogue text
A series of bands of different width, the widest with red medallions against a background of interlaced tendrils. This band has a band of purple carnations on one side, and a band with red grapes on the other. There is the beginning of a wide field with separate assymetric plants, each with three flower-heads.
The designs show Persian design in the bands, and Indian Mughal treatment in the wide field. The reverse is considerably less saturated with dye 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. 1153 on p. 349 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 349 fig. 1153
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