Textile fragment with linked cartouches and Persian-style script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked cartouches and Persian-style script
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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, 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
24 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.630
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Catalogue text
A band of linked cartouches, each containing script. A roundel filled with a swastika links the cartouches. The pattern is white against a red or brown ground.
The textile is very loosely woven. The pattern appears equally well defined on the surface and reverse, so that the method of mordant application cannot be determined. The script is derived from Persian but is meaningless.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. 623 on p. 183 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 183 fig. 623
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