Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
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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, and 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
30 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block (wide band) 13 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
block (red band) 14.5 x 3 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.586
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Catalogue text
A wide band filled with elaborate plant tendrils, leaves, and flowers, brown against a white ground. On either side is a band of stylized ?crowns which can be read as red against white or white against red.
The block size used for the wide band was 13 cm. x 9.5 cm., for the red band it was 14.5 cm. x 3 cm. The reverse shows less 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. 579 on p. 171 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 171, vol. ii p. 171 fig. 579
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