Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and dots
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 13 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.
EA1990.317
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Catalogue text
A loose network of tendrils, with leaves and dots as flower heads. The pattern is white against the red background.
The reverse shows considerably 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. 308 on p. 91 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 91 fig. 308
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