Textile fragment with bands of flowers and elaborate chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers and elaborate chevrons
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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 and green-blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 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.
EA1990.276
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Catalogue text
Bands of flowers seen in side-view, set into medallion shapes, and elaborate chevrons ending in a trefoil, as Cat. no. 266 [EA1990.275]. The design alternates between blue and green-blue, and the resist is either the outline or background of the patterns.
The chevron bands of the pattern are identical to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 40.)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. 267 on p. 77 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 77 fig. 267
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