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Textile fragment with arches and stylized plants

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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 of pointed arches with a pearl border. Inside the arch is a red star on blue ground, and the background of the band is red. It is followed by a brown band with fine, white continuous tendrils and red flowers. At right angles to both bands is apattern of stylized, upright plants, each set into a large trefoil or lobed arch with a
    pearl border. These lobed surrounds are filled with red or blue and form a complementary symmetry.

    For both red and brown, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, but there is more blue. The design is very carefully executed.

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