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Textile fragment with tendrils and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.884
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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. 878 on p. 258 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 257-258, illus. vol. ii p. 258 fig. 878
Location
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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
A continuous design of finely drawn tendrils, flowers, and leaves, white on a dark brown ground with red details. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 876 [EA1990.882].
Technical details and design link this and the previous fragment [EA1990.883] to Cat. no. 876 [EA1990.882].
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