Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and part of two medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and part of two medallions
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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
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Object type
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Dimensions
41 x 64.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 15 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.
EA1990.246
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Catalogue text
Two bands of squares with beaded borders, containing either a rosette or four squares, as in Cat. no. 234 [EA1990.243]. One band is diagonal to the weave. In addition there is a band of linked diamonds. The beginning of two medallions, as in Cat. nos. 234 and 235 [EA1990.243 and EA1990.244], is set against a background of twelve-petalled rosettes on one side of the diagonal band, and against eight-petalled rosettes and stylized, separate leaves on the other side.
Selvedge.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. 237 on p. 68 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 68 fig. 237
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