Textile fragment with flowering trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowering trees
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Associated place
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Date
late 13th century - 14th century -
Material and technique
cotton, probably hand-painted with mordant and dyed brown, and resist- and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in white flax and blue thread, possibly flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.2 x 15.4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 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.
EA1990.823.a
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Catalogue text
Large, stylized, flowering trees, white with brown outlines and details, surrounded by white tendrils with bunches of fruit. The background is red.
White and blue stitching. The design is related to Cat. nos. 1122 [EA1990.1129] and 1132 [EA1990.1139].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. 821 on p. 242 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 242, vol. ii p. 242 fig. 821 & vol. i pl. 28
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