Textile fragment with large quatrefoil and small stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large quatrefoil and small stars
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (possibly by hand or block-printed), 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
14.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.171
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Catalogue text
A circle filled with a large quatrefoil which has a square at the centre, with a small cross inside. The background is filled with small, four-pointed stars. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The pattern shows no evidence of block-printing, and slight irregularities in the outline of the quatrefoil and stars may indicate that the resist was applied by hand.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. 163 on pp. 44-45 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 44 fig. 163
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