Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.5 x 27 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.513
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Catalogue text
Interlocking rosettes or spirals, as in Cat. no.502 [EA1990.509], and with the same visual ambiguity. In addition, there are border bands, the widest with a row of diamond shapes filled with dots and a red cross; this has a narrow band on either side with a row of chevrons. A single row of stylized bodhi leaves finishes the border. The resist defines the design, the background is red or brown.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Possibly 13th century; see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].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. 506 on pp. 150-151 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 150 fig. 506
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