Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with an open seam in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
39.5 x 22.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 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.
EA1990.801
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of paired leaves and quatrefoils; one of the paired leaves is filled with white dots. All outlines are white, some details are brown, and the background is red. In addition there is a border band of paired leaves alternating with rosettes, with white outlines on a brown ground.
The border band with the selvedge is sewn on with an open seam. The length of one block side was 9 cm. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for radiocarbon results.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. 794 on p. 233 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 92, 233-236, & 236, vol. ii p. 233 fig. 794
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