Textile fragment with quatrefoils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and leaves
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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 a seam in flax, and with repair stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
63 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.805
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of quatrefoils and paired leaves, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801], but here without a border.
Seam and mending stitches. The fabric is sewn together from two fragments. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for details.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. 798 on p. 234 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92, vol. ii p. 234 fig. 798
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