Textile fragment with an elaborate quatrefoil and tab-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with an elaborate quatrefoil and tab-shapes
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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
12.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 19 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.
EA1990.207
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Catalogue text
An elaborate quatrefoil, centred around a carnation, and combining lotus-leaf shapes and flower buds; surrounded on four sides by an hourglass shape which can also be read as four tabs with a square and rosette at the centre. Fragment of an ornate, eight-petalled rosette. The resist defines the pattern generally, but at times is also the outline of a design in blue. The background is blue.
Some light blue appears in the flower buds of the quatrefoil.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. 199 on p. 56 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 56 fig. 199
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