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Textile fragment with flowers and Arabic inscription
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and dark-brown or purple
- Dimensions
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43 x 24 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.872
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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. 866 on p. 255 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 255 fig. 866
Location
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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 and large, red flowers supported by fine, brown curving stems and leaves on a white background; in addition there is a wide border with two bands of curving leaves on either side of a band with white medallions on a red ground. The medallions contain an Arabic inscription; for its translation see the previous textile [EA1990.871], which is altogether identical in design.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fragment is identical in design and technical details to Cat. no. 865 [EA1990.871], and both were certainly part of the same fabric.
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