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Textile fragment with stylized trees

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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 with two versions of stylized trees; one has the shape of a single bodhi tree leaf, with two additional branches emerging on either side of the tip, the other has seven branches in the shape of serrated leaves and an offshoot emerging on either side of the base. The trunks of both trees are filled with beaded dots. The design is red against a white background. Adjacent is a narrow band of alternating six-petalled rosettes and small circles, white against a red background.

    The pattern is very slightly blurred on the reverse.

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