Textile fragment with arches and plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and plants
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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 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
38 x 32 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 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.
EA1990.223
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Catalogue text
A sequence of curving bands, each with a row of arches and plants, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. The design was apparently part of a very large medallion, and the arches probably represent the petals of a flower. The pattern is defined by the resist.
Selvedge; remains of stitching.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. 215 on p. 61 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 62, vol. ii p. 61 fig. 215
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