Textile fragment with rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes
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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 or mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.287
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Catalogue text
White, irregularly shaped six-petalled rosettes with a red centre each, and white dots set in between against a red background.
Surface and reverse have an equal dye saturation, and the design outlines are equally precise. Although the rosettes are not identical to the swirling spirals of a fragment in the Kelsey Museum (acc. no. 94116), the two fragments have a similarity of colour and design approach.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. 278 on p. 83 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 83 fig. 278
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