Textile fragment with flowers, leaves, and berries

Title

Textile fragment with flowers, leaves, and berries
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed;

mordant dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

36 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.813

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Catalogue text

A continuous field of large, stylized, white and red flowers and leaves defined by brown outlines against a red ground. The background is also filled with small, white tendrils and bunches of berries. The design is similar to Cat. no. 1121 [EA1990.1128], but there is apparently no indigo applied.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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