Textile fragment with interlocking medallions
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking medallions
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Associated place
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Date
11th century (1001 - 1100) -
Material and technique
cotton, probably block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 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
First floor | Gallery 28 | Asian Crossroads -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.320
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Catalogue text
Interlocking medallion shapes with beaded borders and filled with tendrils that have flower-heads. The design is closely related to the continuous lotus vine of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is red.
The design was probably resist-stamped, as the outlines are slightly less clearly defined on the reverse. Similar to the more coarsely printed, blue design of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. This similarity links the pattern also with two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28). The fragment was given a C-14 date of 1060 CE +/- 40. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 311 on p. 92 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 163, vol. ii p. 92 fig. 311 & vol. i pl. 19
