Textile fragment with stylized plants and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and squares
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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 red, and resist-dyed blue; with repair stitching in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.5 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.1119
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Catalogue text
A band with blue squares containing white rosettes and separated by a pearl border. In addition there is an overall design of stylized plants, as in Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114].
Stitching, done to mend the fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation for the blue than the surface. The design of stylized plants is similar to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990).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. 1112 on p. 333 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 333 fig. 1112
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