Textile fragment with chevrons and crenellations
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with chevrons and crenellations
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 11 / 13 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.
EA1990.707
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Catalogue text
A band of red and white chevrons, with a border of crenellations on either side. In addition there is the beginning of two brown bands lined by dots, one band possibly with diamonds.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface.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. 700 on p. 206 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 206 fig. 700
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