Textile fragment with bands of S-shapes, cartouches, stars, and interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of S-shapes, cartouches, stars, and interlace
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, block-printed, and applied with dark-grey
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.444
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands with geometric designs, of s-shapes, cartouches, stars, and interlace; in two of the bands the background is filled with dots. The background of the bands is dark grey, and the design is set against it in white.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 437 on p. 129 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 129 fig. 437
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