Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, and squares with quatrefoils
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, and squares with quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue, hand-applied with resist, and dyed dark-blue; joined with a flat, open seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 20 / 19 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.
EA1990.217
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Catalogue text
Inscription developed into interlace with plant and floral terminals, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215], and a band of squares with elaborate quatrefoils, surrounded by a frame of dots, similar to Cat. no. 204 [EA1990.212]. At right angles to these two bands is a fragment of the same interlace inscription. Some of the interlace and floral design are kept light blue.
Two pieces are sewn together with a flat, open seam.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. 209 on p. 59 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 59 fig. 209
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