Textile fragment with medallion, and a vine with leaves and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion, and a vine with leaves and flowers
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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 resist, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 x 15.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 20 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.
EA1990.198
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Catalogue text
A border band with a medallion and leaf terminals, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A narrow zig-zag band is on either side. In addition, a fragmentary motif of a vine with leaves and flowers, possibly the beginning of the main field. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. As in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197], the border was block-printed, but the main field may have been drawn by hand.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. 190 on p. 53 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 53 fig. 190
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