Textile fragment with stars, interlace, and possibly linked medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars, interlace, and possibly linked medallions
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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, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 16 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1017
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Catalogue text
The beginning of a large design, possibly of interlocked medallions and leaves, red and blue with white outlines and fine, brown lines; a band of red interlacing, with serrated leaves and petals, is flanked on two sides by bands of stars in small compartments, as in Cat. no. 1004 [EA1990.1011].
The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but there is slightly more blue.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. 1010 on p. 299 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 315, vol. ii p. 299 fig. 1010
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