Textile fragment with columns and stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with columns 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
15 x 13.5 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.
EA1990.551
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Catalogue text
A row of columns and stylized trees, as in Cat. no. 534 [EA1990.541]. The shaft of the column is made up from two rows of dots. The design is white against a red background, and each tree has a brown outline.
The design is slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 544 on p. 162 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 162, vol. ii p. 162 fig. 544
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