Textile fragment with linked cartouches and medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked cartouches and medallions
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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; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block 20 x 20 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.740
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Catalogue text
Two types of linked cartouches, one version white with brown dots and a small brown medallion at the centre, the other red with two stylized white tendrils, each with a heart shape attached, as well as a brown central medallion. Both versions share the undulating border and small cartouches that link the medallions. The shapes complement each other, as in tile work.
Remains of stitching. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 8.5 cm. 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. 733 on p. 215 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 215 fig. 733
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