Textile fragment with stylized plants and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with stitching in mercerized cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18.5 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.318
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Catalogue text
Stylized two-leaved plants, one leaf filled with dots; these are arranged around central quatrefoils of which there are four versions, as in Cat. nos. 794, 796-8 [EA1990.801, EA1990.803, EA1990.804, EA1990.805]. The design is defined by white outlines but filled with red, as is the background.
Stitches in three corners of the rectangular fragment; these are probably recent. Possibly 15th century, see Cat. no. 797, which has a a C-14 date of 1460 CE +/- 70.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. 309 on p. 92 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92, vol. ii p. 92 fig. 309
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