Textile fragment with flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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; with repair stitching in light-blue cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
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.
EA1990.880
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of single, large flowers. The flower-heads are seen in side view and have a bushy appearance; each flower is supported by a straight stem, with four narrow leaves emerging. The plant is white with brown outlines, on a red ground. In addition there is a narrow, brown border band at the selvedge, with a continuous white vine and single rosettes.
Selvedge, with the some light blue mending stitches. The reverse shows less 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. 874 on p. 257 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 257 fig. 874
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