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Textile
- Place of origin:
Kanpur (made)
- Date:
ca. 1872 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Woven cotton, block printed
- Museum number:
8333:11/(IS)
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
Fragment of block printed coarse cotton, with a star repeat in terracotta.
Place of Origin
Kanpur (made)
Date
ca. 1872 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Woven cotton, block printed
Marks and inscriptions
Undeciphered inscription.
Handwritten paper label on back of object.
'No 538/D./INDIA./N.W. Provinces./Heading, Division,-II/CLASS VIII/No. 110/1877 [in pencil]80'
Printed and handwritten exhibition label, on back of object.
Dimensions
Length: 80 cm, Width: 40 cm
Object history note
Transferred from India Museum 1879.
Historical context note
The complete object was probably intended for use as domestic textiles.
Descriptive line
Textile, fragment, block printed cotton, Kanpur, ca. 1872
Materials
Cotton
Techniques
Block printed; Resist-dyed; Woven
Subjects depicted
Star
Categories
Textiles; Household objects; Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project; India Museum
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection