Textile fragment with lobed diamond-shapes and stylized leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed diamond-shapes and stylized leaves
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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, block-printed with resist and dyed dark-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.221
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Catalogue text
Two versions of lobed diamonds, one with a rosette at the centre, the other with a diamond shape inside, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. Stylized leaf shapes are added to the four sides of the lobed diamonds, making the entire design a quatrefoil. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue. The inside of the quatrefoil is dyed a darker blue.
The size of the block used was 5 cm. x 5 cm.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. 213 on p. 61 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 61 fig. 213
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