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
23.5 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.845
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of thin, white tendrils with small leaves, curving in upon themselves, and with a flower or bunch of grapes at the end of the stem. The background is red, and there are brown details in the small leaves.
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. 839 on p. 247 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 247 fig. 839
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