Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with tear-drops filled with scales, and stylized trees and flowers
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Literature notes
A wide border with stylized trees and flowers, and a large design field with pear shapes, filled with scale design, and with eight-petalled rosettes dyed purple, as well as very small five-petalled rosettes, both types with red centres. The pattern is generally grey against a white ground, but the stylized trees of the border have an internal flowering plant that is white against the grey tree shape.
Selvedge. The reverse shows little dye saturation. Ottoman, probably 18th century. -
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- Date
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probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)
- Material and technique
- linen, block-printed, and applied with grey
- Dimensions
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20 x 38 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.467
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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. 460 on p. 135 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 135, illus. vol. ii p. 135 fig. 460
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A wide border with stylized trees and flowers, and a large design field with pear shapes, filled with scale design, and with eight-petalled rosettes dyed purple, as well as very small five-petalled rosettes, both types with red centres. The pattern is generally grey against a white ground, but the stylized trees of the border have an internal flowering plant that is white against the grey tree shape.
Selvedge. The reverse shows little dye saturation. Ottoman, probably 18th century.
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