Textile fragment with cartouches, tendrils, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cartouches, tendrils, 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 with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
9 x 30.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 13 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.
EA1990.777
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Catalogue text
Cartouches linked by tendrils, either red on white ground, or white on red ground, and set into a diagonal grid of small overlapping rosettes. The chain of rosettes is similar to Cat. no. 714 [EA1990.721]. Near the selvedge is a narrow border with single ?flowers.
A selvedge with a border band parallel to it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 770 on p. 226 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 226 fig. 770
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