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Textile fragment with circles, and naturalistic fruit and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe (possible place of creation)
- Date
- mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, printed with mordant, and dyed brown and red; with a hem in flax
- Dimensions
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25 x 41 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1180
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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. 1176 on p. 355 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 355 fig. 1176
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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 field of small white circles and red quatrefoils on a brown ground, with a border at the selvedge with naturalistic fruit and flowers, red and white on brown.
Selvedge. A bias edge is carefully hemmed with flax thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence for the use of blocks. The naturalism of the fruit and flowers, which includes shading, date the fragment to the mid-19th century at the earliest; it is not Indian.
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