Textile fragment with circles, rosettes, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles, rosettes, and tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
probably 16th century - early 17th century -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.720
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Catalogue text
Circles linked by small flower crosses, as in Cat. no. 705 [EA1990.712]. A red, eight-petalled flower is in the centre of each circle, which is otherwise densely filled with white tendrils on a brown ground. The background to the flower crosses is red.
The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. For further comment see Cat. no. 705 [EA1990.712]; the textile is probably dated to the 16th or early 17th century.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. 713 on p. 210 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 210 fig. 713
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