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
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in flax and cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
40 x 16.5 cm (warp x weft)
25 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (main field) 13 cm estimated (length)
block (border band) 13 x 5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.803
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of paired leaves and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. One of each paired leaf is filled with dots, the outlines are white, and the background is red. A border band with paired leaves and rosettes is also identical to Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801].
Selvedge; remains of stitching. The length of one block side used for the continuous design was 13 cm.; the size of the block for the border band was 13 cm. x 5 cm. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used for both brown and dark red was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root. 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. 796 on pp. 233-234 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92, vol. ii p. 233 fig. 796
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