Textile fragment with half-medallion, tendrils, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with half-medallion, tendrils, 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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.618
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands of tendrils and rosettes, white on a brown ground and flanked on either side by a line of dots; a wide band with a half-medallion filled entirely with small tendrils and half of an ornate flower-head, as in Cat. no. 306 [EA1990.315]. The design of the wide band is white against a red ground.
One long side of the fragment is carefully folded and possibly was once sewn. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 611 on p. 180 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 180-181, vol. ii p. 180 fig. 611
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