Textile fragment with Arabic-style script, rosettes, and stylized trees or foliage
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Arabic-style script, rosettes, and stylized trees or foliage
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 11 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.
EA1990.148
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Catalogue text
Bands with inscription, rosettes, and rows of dots as well as stylized trees or foliage. A large, stylized floral design similar to Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146], but here with nine dots at the centre. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge; the design moves at a right angle to it. The inscription is derived from Arabic, but it is not readable. However, as the script simulated is similar to Cat. no. 142 [EA1990.150], the fragment may have an early date, possibly 11th-12th century.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. 140 on p. 38 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 37-38, vol. ii p. 38 fig. 140
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