Textile fragment with leaves, niches, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, niches, and tendrils
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 23 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
EA1990.962
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Catalogue text
Moving from the selvedge inwards, there is first a row of large, red dots against a blue ground, followed by red, blue, and white border bands. Next is a band of large, elongated leaf shapes, and the main field has beaded niches that contain blue tendrils and alternate with a large ?floral design. The background to this field is red.
Selvedge. The reverse shows more 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. 956 on p. 284 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 284 fig. 956
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