Tab with stylized flowering plant, rosette, and vine
On display
Details
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Title
Tab with stylized flowering plant, rosette, and vine
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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 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
13.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.172
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Catalogue text
A tab shape with a running vine as a surround and a stylized flowering plant inside. At the centre of the design is a large rosette with three circles of petals; it has two vine scrolls at the base and an ornate flower-head at the top, which appears in side-view.
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. 164 on p. 45 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 45 & 47-48, vol. ii p. 45 fig. 164
