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 a stitch in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 15 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.
EA1990.843
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of quatrefoils and paired leaves, one of which is filled with dots, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. The pattern is outlined in white and filled with red or brown on a red ground.
A single stitch is in the fabric. The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see the result of the radiocarbon testing of Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804].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. 802 on p. 235 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 235 fig. 802
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