Textile fragment with band of rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with band of rosettes
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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 mordant-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
22 x 6 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 17 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.
EA1990.547
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Catalogue text
A band with four different types of rosettes, as in Cat. no. 511 [EA1990.518]. Small trefoils are set into the spandrels. The pattern is white against a red ground, the centres of the rosettes are brown.
The brown centres of the rosettes have all but one disintegrated. The reverse is saturated with dye.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. 540 on p. 161 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 161 fig. 540
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