Textile fragment with tendrils arranged as medallions, rosettes, and a vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils arranged as medallions, rosettes, and a vine
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
36.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 14 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.
EA1990.623
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Catalogue text
A narrow band with a simple, continuous vine, white on a red ground; a wide pattern field with tendrils arranged as interlocking circles or medallions, each filled with a rosette. Additional small flowers fill the spaces between the medallions.
Selvedge next to the narrow band. Surface and reverse show the pattern equally well.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. 616 on p. 181 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 181 fig. 616
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