Textile fragment with Maltese cross and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Maltese cross 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, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 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.
EA1990.370
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Catalogue text
The main design can be read either as a large Maltese cross filled with rosettes, and stylized floral forms filling the space between the arms, or alternatively as trefoils, linked and with their tips pointing towards a small rosette. The pattern can be read as either red on white ground, or white against a red ground. In addition there is a band of squares and a narrow band of tooth-edge design.
Surface and reverse show almost an identical precision of design.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. 368 on pp. 109-110 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 109 fig. 368
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