Textile fragment with arches, stylized trees, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches, stylized trees, 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, mordant-dyed red and brown, 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 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 26 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.
EA1990.966
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Catalogue text
Superimposed rows of arches followed by white rosettes, as well as stylized trees built up from white dots on a blue ground. The entire design appears very dense and lacks clarity.
Selvedge at right angles to the design bands. The dye saturation is identical on both sides of the fragment, and it is not possible to distinguish between surface and reverse. The thread used is very fine.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. 960 on p. 285 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 285 fig. 960
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