Textile fragment with rosettes and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and flowers
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 24 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 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.
EA1990.875
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Catalogue text
A band with a row of stylized, red flowers, each supported by a curving stem, with leaves emerging; on either side is a brown band with small white rosettes set into medallions of tendrils. In addition there is a field with two large rosettes made up from four layers of petals, defined by red outlines on a white ground.
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. 869 on pp. 255-256 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 255 fig. 869
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