Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted circles
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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 or mordant, and 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
45 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.516
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Catalogue text
A band of red rosettes framed by brown, beaded circles, and linked to each other with small circles. Red trefoils fill the spandrels, the background is white. The fragment is similar to Cat. no. 508 [EA1990.515].
It is difficult to determine how the mordant was applied, as surface and reverse are very similar.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. 509 on p. 151 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 214, vol. ii p. 151 fig. 509
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