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Fragment of a palampore, or bed cover, with tree of life
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › south India (place of creation)
- Date
- 1701 - 1740
- Material and technique
- cotton, mordant- and resist-dyed
- Dimensions
- 226 x 129 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › wall-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Fund, the Art Fund, and the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 2008.
- Accession no.
- EA2008.57
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Stunning Indian Chintz at the Ashmolean’, Asian Textiles: Newsletter of the Oxford Asian Textiles Group, 40, (2008), cat. p. 5, p. 5
Location
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- currently in research collection
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