Textile fragment with medallions, tendrils, and zigzags
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions, tendrils, and zigzags
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
36.5 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 21 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.
EA1990.1070
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Catalogue text
Large medallions are set into square compartments created by narrow, white bands with carefully designed red tendrils and zigzags. The medallions are filled with either interlace or tendrils, and are alternately set on a white or red ground and surrounded by tendrils. Both have blue details added as well.
It is not possible to distinguish between surface and reverse. There is no evidence for the use of resist for the application of blue.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. 1063 on p. 315 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 315 fig. 1063
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