Textile fragment with ornate rosette, and tendrils with flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with ornate rosette, and tendrils with flower-heads
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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, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 24 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.
EA1990.199
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Catalogue text
A band arrangement with an ornate, eight-petalled rosette in a frame that follows the circular outline of the flower, and tendrils with small flower-heads. Additional motifs are fragmentary. In the band, the resist defines the outline of the design, but the form itself is blue; see especially the tendrils and flower-heads. The outline is against a blue background.
Some remains of stitching.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. 191 on p. 54 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 54 fig. 191
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