Length of Printed Cotton
1880 (made)
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Length of block printed cotton, complete except for a small piece missing from one corner. Printed with an ogival lattice pattern in red, blue, white, green and mustard yellow. Mordant-dyed and resist-dyed with painted yellow. Printed cartouche at one end gives the name of Ali Ahmed Sayyid and the Islamic date of 1298 (= 1880-1 AD).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven cotton, block printed, mordant dyed and resist-dyed |
| Brief description | Textile, cotton, resist dyed and mordant-dyed, block printed, painted, Machilipatnam, 1880 |
| Physical description | Length of block printed cotton, complete except for a small piece missing from one corner. Printed with an ogival lattice pattern in red, blue, white, green and mustard yellow. Mordant-dyed and resist-dyed with painted yellow. Printed cartouche at one end gives the name of Ali Ahmed Sayyid and the Islamic date of 1298 (= 1880-1 AD). |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Printed cartouche at one end gives the name of Ali Ahmed Sayyid and the date of 1298. (dated 1298, Islamic date equivalent to AD 1880) |
| Object history | Acquired by Caspar Purdon Clarke on his purchasing trip to India in 1881 to 1882. |
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| Accession number | IS.1772-1883 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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