Textile fragment with oval medallion and possibly a tree
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with oval medallion and possibly a tree
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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, dyed red, and resist-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
32.5 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.989
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Catalogue text
Two designs: one of a red, oval medallion filled entirely with tendrils and set against a blue ground, the other with a large, red ?leaf or tree filled with flowering, white tendrils. This is also set against a dark blue background that includes additional tendrils. Both designs are separated by narrow bands of red and white lozenges.
There is less dye saturation on the reverse for the red, but more blue.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. 983 on p. 292 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 292 fig. 983
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