Textile fragment with flowers and Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and Arabic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and dark-brown or purple
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Object type
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Dimensions
47 x 41 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 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.
EA1990.871
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Catalogue text
A large corner with a band showing an inscription in white medallions against a red ground. On either side of the band is a white border band with red flowers and single leaves, all with purple outlines. Beyond these bands is the beginning of a main field, filled with red flowers and purple tendrils on a white ground.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The Arabic inscription reads: 'He who does not consider the consequences [of his action] is not in control of his destiny'. Either 18th or early 19th century, probably not Indian.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. 865 on p. 254 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 254 fig. 865
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