Textile fragment with arches, palmettes, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches, palmettes, 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; block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 31 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 19 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.
EA1990.943
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Catalogue text
A row of arches with alternating palmettes and standing flowers, white against a red ground and with blue spandrels; in addition there is a narrow band of red, white, and blue linked diamonds.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands.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. 937 on p. 278 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 278 fig. 937
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