Textile fragment with arches and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and leaves
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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 light-blue and dark-blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 11.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 12 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.
EA1990.231
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Catalogue text
A border of arches, as in Cat. nos. 222 and 211 [EA1990.230 and EA1990.219]; leaves fill the spandrels between the arches. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge.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. 223 on p. 64 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 64 fid. 223
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