Textile fragment with rosettes in circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in circles
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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 and brown; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 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.
EA1990.484
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Catalogue text
Small, twelve-petalled red rosettes, each set into a white circle against a brown background, identical to the previous textile [EA1990.483].
Very fragmentary remains of stitching. On the reverse, the outlines of the rosettes in particular are blurred.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. 477 on p. 143 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 143 fig. 477
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