Textile fragment with leaves, hamsa, or geese, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, hamsa, or geese, and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
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.
EA1990.844
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of paired leaves, geese (hamsa), and quatrefoils, similar in arrangement to the previous fragments and to Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. Another example including the hamsa is Cat. no. 805 [EA1990.807].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see radiocarbon result 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. 803 on p. 236 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 236 fig. 803
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