Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers or fruit, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers or fruit, and rosettes
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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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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 36 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 15 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.
EA1990.846
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of densely spaced red tendrils and small, oval flowers or fruit. In addition there is a wide band with brown and red rosettes, the latter set into a white tear-drop surround, with white tendrils emerging. The background of the band is red. Narrow, brown borders with white diamond shapes are on either side.
Selvedge at right angles to the band. 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. 841 on pp. 247-248 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 247 fig. 841
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