Textile fragment with large medallions and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large medallions and flower-heads
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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 x 46 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 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.
EA1990.684
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of large medallions filled with red flower-heads. The medallions are either red or white, with brown outlines and a ring of small plants attached to the surround. Small white tendrils fill the space between the medallions. Towardsthe selvedge is a wide border, with white oval medallions containing a red flower, and brown half-medallions with half-rosettes. The background of the band is red, filled with white tendrils. On either side is a brown border with white discs.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 677 on pp. 199-200 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 199 fig. 677
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