Textile fragment with swirling flower-heads and a dotted zigzag
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling flower-heads and a dotted zigzag
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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
19.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.540
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Catalogue text
A band with a single zigzag line of dots, and a stylized ?plant set into each triangular space. On either side of this band is a narrow band with very small rosettes alternating with dots; additional narrow bands with dots. A continuous pattern of large, swirling flower-heads makes up the second half of the fragment. All patterns are white against a red or brown background.
The patterns are slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 533 on p. 159 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 159 fig. 533
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