Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, rosettes, and floral pattern
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, rosettes, and floral pattern
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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 light-blue, hand-applied with resist, and dyed dark-blue; with repair stitching in blue flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 22 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.
EA1990.216
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Catalogue text
A band of four different ornate rosettes set into a curving vine made up of dots, and lined by four rows of dots, as in Cat. no. 198 [EA1990.206]. On one side of it is a fragmentary field of vegetal patterns, showing leaves in outline, on the other side is an ornate mock inscription which develops into plant-forms and interlacing, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215]. Some of the interlacing is filled with light blue areas. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some mending with blue thread.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. 208 on p. 59 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 59 fig. 208
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