Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, tendrils, rosettes, and stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, tendrils, rosettes, and stylized trees
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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 mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38.5 x 19 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 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.
EA1990.541
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Catalogue text
Parallel bands, two with a vine made up of dots and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532], one with four rows of rosettes, and another one with stylized columns and trees. The pattern is white against a red background.
The reverse shows 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. 534 on p. 159 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 160-163, vol. ii p. 159 fig. 534
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