Textile fragment with linked stepped squares and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked stepped squares and 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, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 18 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.
EA1990.482
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Catalogue text
A ?border band, of linked, stepped squares with a rosette at the centre of each. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a brown background, with red or brown interiors.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.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. 475 on p. 142 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 142 fig. 475
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