Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and trefoils
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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
26 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 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.
EA1990.696
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Catalogue text
Tendrils in brown outlines, with split leaves, emerge from trefoils and shape a medallion around red, heart-shaped leaves with serrated surrounds. The ground is white.
The textile is loosely woven with a thin thread. The mordant has saturated both sides of the fabric.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. 689 on p. 203 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 203 fig. 689
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