Textile fragment with medallion, squares with quatrefoils and rosettes, and tabs
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion, squares with quatrefoils and rosettes, and tabs
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Associated place
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Date
15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31.5 x 28 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.218
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Catalogue text
Part of a rectangle with tabs at the border, four of which remain; the fragment is similar to Cat. no. 182 [EA1990.190], with a large medallion at the centre of the rectangle, although the details of design are different. A border of squares surrounds the rectangle; these are filled with a sequence of quatrefoils, segmented squares, and eight-petalled rosettes. The tabs repeat two different designs: a stylized tree on a stepped base, and diagonally arranged stars with a globe hanging from the top.
Selvedge and remains of stitching around the tips of the tab shapes.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. 210 on p. 60 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 60 fig. 210
