Textile fragment with flowers, dots, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, dots, and rosettes
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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 resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 23 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 25 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.
EA1990.109
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled flowers and single dots form a grid of squares, inside each is set an eight-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre, identical to Cat. no. 99 (EA1990.107). The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge.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. 101 on p. 27 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 27 fig. 101
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