Textile fragment with flowers, dots, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, dots, and rosettes
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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 resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14.5 cm estimated (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.107
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled flowers and single dots are linked to make a grid of squares. Inside each square is an eight-petalled rosette. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
A slight mismatch of design identifies the length of one block side as 14.5 cm.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. 99 on p. 27 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 27, vol. ii p. 27 fig. 99
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