Textile fragment with medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions
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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
23 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 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.
EA1990.765
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Catalogue text
Large red medallions complement each other in shape. They are separated by narrow white bands with a single dotted line, interrupted by small cartouches and lobed medallions. Inside the large medallions are brown quatrefoils with white outlines that have small leaves emerging. The quatrefoils are filled with white tendrils.
The reverse shows 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. 758 on pp. 222-223 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 222 fig. 758
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