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Textile fragment with bands of flowers, palmettes, and circles

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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

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A band with small flowers supported by a long stem, alternating with palmettes, white on a red ground. This is followed by a narrow band of small, white circles on red, partly overlayed with blue, and a single row of brown dots on a white ground. The beginning of a pattern of interlaced vines is also visible, white with brown outlines on a red ground.

    Brown and red only partly saturate the reverse. Additional traces of blue appear where the resist has cracked. The length of one side of the block used was 14 cm.

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