Textile fragment with medallions, and rosettes set into linked stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions, and rosettes set into linked stars
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, woven with double warp at selvedge, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 / 21 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.202
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Catalogue text
A border band with a medallion with leaf terminals, and eight-petalled rosettes set into linked star shapes, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]; a narrow band of white and a blue continuous zigzag. In general the resist defines the design, but there is some ambiguity, and some forms can be read as blue against a white background.
Selvedge, visibly strengthened with a double warp.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
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. 194 on p. 54 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 54 fig. 194
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