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Textile fragment with bodhi leaves and possibly stylized trees
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- Date
- probably mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and light-blue
- Dimensions
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20 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1174
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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. 1170 on p. 354 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 354 fig. 1170
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 band of stylized straight white ?trees with diamond-shaped tops. At the base are single bodhi tree leaves placed between the trunks. The design is followed by a solid red band and a narrow border with a very small checkerboard design.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. There are a few traces of light blue, apparently applied to the surface.
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