Textile fragment with inscription, rosettes, and stylized trees and palmettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with inscription, rosettes, and stylized trees and palmettes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 9 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.
EA1990.152
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Catalogue text
Band of inscription, four solid lines on either side, a band of six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, and a row of stylized trees alternating with palmettes, as in Cat. no.s 142 and 142 [EA1990.150, EA1990.151]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The inscription combines actual script with mistakenly interpreted shapes. The words 'to its owner...' can be read. The type of script suggests an early date, possibly 11th to 12th century. Also published in Barnes 1990: 190, fig. 6.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. 144 on p. 39 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 39 & 68, vol. ii p. 39 fig. 144
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