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Textile fragment with flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and applied with grey, or dyed light-purple
- Dimensions
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17 x 22.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 16 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.
- EA1990.889
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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. 883 on pp. 259-260 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 367, illus. vol. ii p. 259 fig. 883
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 51, illus. 83
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 wide, red band with white flowers turns a corner at right angles. The flowers appear in side-view. On one side of the band are narrow bands of chevrons and a band of indistinct red and brown shapes; on the other side is the beginning of a red pattern on white, set off with a narrow border of a continuous vine, white on red.
Selvedge. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The band of indistinct shapes is probably similar to a row of linked crowns appearing in a fragment in the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan [Kelsey 94139]. The original card had the comment '18th-century'.
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