Textile fragment with floral medallion and Persian-style script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral medallion and Persian-style script
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with repair stitching in black thread, possibly cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 x 35 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 15 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.
EA1990.774
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Catalogue text
A very large floral medallion arranged as a quatrefoil and filled with small flowers and four tear-drop leaves; four additional smaller rosettes surround it. At the selvedge is a band with an inscription, as in Cat. no. 680 [EA1990.687]. All designs have white outlines further defined by fine brown lines against a red ground.
Selvedge and some black stitching, probably recently done to hold the fragment together. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The script is derived from Persian. 18th century?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. 767 on p. 225 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 225 fig. 767
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