Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Associated place
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Date
probably 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 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.
EA1990.306
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Catalogue text
Interlocking spiral that can also be read as a floral design, as in Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]; in addition there is a border with chevrons, as in Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].
The fragment may have been part of Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305]. It would date to the 13th century in that case.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. 297 on p. 88 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 88, vol. ii p. 88 fig. 297
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