Textile fragment with linked medallions, stylized leaves, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked medallions, stylized leaves, and squares
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Associated place
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Date
11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.248
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Catalogue text
Curving, narrow bands with dots inside are arranged to form linked medallions. Circles are set onto the bands; stylized leaves and a square centre fill the medallions. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some remains of stitching. A similar group of fragments has been found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28).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. 239 on p. 68 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 68 fig. 239
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