Textile fragment with quatrefoils and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and circles
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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 or mordant, and dyed brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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.
EA1990.279
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Catalogue text
Small quatrefoils and circles, light against a brown background.
Two sides of the block used are visible, although the dimensions are unclear. An impurity in the ?resist causes the light areas to disintegrate.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. 270 on p. 81 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 81 fig. 270
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