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Textile fragment with part of a circle, petals, and tendrils

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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

    The fragment of a large circle or medallion, made up of white, red, and blue concentric circles with petals and dots. The circle is surrounded by large, red tendrils set against a blue background filled with small, white tendrils. This large design field has a red and white border band with diamonds and half-medallions as a central pattern, and zigzag bands on either side. The stylistic treatment of large tendrils is similar to Cat. nos. 1035 and 1128 [EA1990.1042 and EA1990.1135].

    The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. It seems that the resist was not block-printed, but drawn by hand.

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