Textile fragment with arches and Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and Arabic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
five pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red; joined with stitching in cotton
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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 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 13 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4, along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 5, along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.377
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Catalogue text
A band of pointed arches, red against a white ground; a band of script, white against a red ground. Additional fragmentary scraps with large squares and diamonds, red against a light ground.
Mended with a total of five patches. The fragment is very faded, but there seems to be little difference in precision of outlines between the surface and reverse. The inscription reads 'and prosperity and power.'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. 375 on p. 111 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 111 fig. 375
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