Tab with vegetal shape, linked stars, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Tab with vegetal shape, linked stars, and rosettes
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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 resist, and dyed blue; with a hem and remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 6 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 21 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.
EA1990.184
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Catalogue text
A tab with the identical pattern to Cat. no. 175 [EA1990.183], showing a surround of linked stars and a vegetal design inside. A similar, very fragmentary zigzag border is also present. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Remains of stitching, and a hem along one side. The tab is torn in half lengthwise.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. 176 on p. 49 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 49 fig. 176
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