Textile fragment with squares, clusters of dots, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, clusters of 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 mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.502
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of squares within squares, clusters of nine dots or tiny squares, and rosettes, usually with twelve petals each. The pattern is defined by the resist, the background is red. Brown is restricted to the squares.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.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. 495 on p. 147 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 147 fig. 495
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