Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers, and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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 19 cm (warp x weft)
21 / 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.
EA1990.678
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Catalogue text
A band of arches and small panels filled with floral designs, as in Cat. no. 669 [EA1990.676], brown on a white ground, and an additional pattern of large tendrils and flowers, white with brown outlines against a red ground.
A selvedge is parallel to the pattern band. The white shapes of flowers and tendrils are poorly matched with their brown outlines. 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. 671 on p. 198 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 198 fig. 671
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