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Textile fragment with leaves and dots

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A band with four leaves arranged as a quatrefoil, with white outlines and filled with red against a blue ground, and surrounded by small flowers with four petals and tiny leaves. The quatrefoil alternates with a single red leaf, red with white outline. Next to the band is a a field of red blotches filled with white dots, against a blue ground.

    Selvedge at right angles to the band. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim have a band with single leaves similar to the one here (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 32 & 36).

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