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

A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).

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

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Textile fragment with flowers in potsfront

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Textile fragment with flowers in pots

  • Literature notes

    Red flowers with light blue stems and leaves are set into red pots. Each plant and pot is set into a lobed arch with floral pillars; the spandrels between the arches are filled with purple flowers. The background is the natural cotton.

    The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Gujarat (place of creation)
    Date
    probably mid - late 19th century
    Material and technique
    cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed brown, red, purple, and possibly dyed light-blue
    Dimensions
    34.5 x 11 cm (length x width)
    along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    Material index
    cotton,
    cotton
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    relief print,
    mordant dyed,
    mordant dyed
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.1160

  • 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. 1156 on p. 350 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 350 fig. 1156

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