Textile fragment with half-medallions, squares, and plants
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with half-medallions, squares, and plants
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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 stitching in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 22.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.780
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Catalogue text
A wide band of half-medallions and squares defined by white borders with red dots, and naturalistic sprigs of plants, white on a red ground. A band of small white arches and discs on brown ground is along one side, and fragments of it on the other side as well. A third design field includes red medallions filled with small white tendrils and brown details.
Blue stitching. 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. 774 on p. 227 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 227, vol. ii p. 227 fig. 774
