Textile fragment with crossed tendrils, flowers, and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with crossed tendrils, flowers, and arches
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 14.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.676
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Catalogue text
Two bands of arches and small panels, filled with floral designs, brown on a white ground, and separated by a third band with crossed tendrils and small flowers, white on a red ground. See also Cat. nos. 630, 631 [EA1990.636 & EA1990.637].
The red band with white tendrils is over-saturated with mordant, and as a result the pattern is indistinct. The reverse is 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. 669 on p. 198 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 198, vol. ii p. 198 fig. 669
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