Textile fragment with bands of stars, hearts, circles, and crenellations
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of stars, hearts, circles, and crenellations
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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
27.5 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.651
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Catalogue text
Two bands of stars are set on either side of a band with small half-rosettes, heart-shapes, and circles, all with serrated outlines. The design is brown against a white ground. A single row of small crenellations is set along one side, and there is the beginning of a large design, possibly with medallion shapes, white on red with brown outlines.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 645 on p. 190 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 190 fig. 645
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