Textile fragment with inscription, stylized tree, and palmette
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with inscription, stylized tree, and palmette
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 6 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.151
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Catalogue text
Band of fragmentary inscription, with stylized tree and palmette above it and the fragment of a row of ?rosettes, as in Cat. no. 144 [EA1990.152]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The inscription is so fragmentary that only the word 'blessing' can be made out. For further details see Cat. no. 142 [EA1990.150]. 11th to 12th century?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. 143 on p. 39 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 39 fig. 143
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