Textile fragment with arches and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches 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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 20 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 9 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.
EA1990.636
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Catalogue text
A band of arches filled with floral patterns, in brown outline against a white ground. This is followed by a band filled with red rosettes and superimposed brown lines. A fragmentary second band of arches is adjacent to this band. All patterns are brown or red against a white ground, and there is a solid band of red close to the selvedge.
A selvedge is parallel to the bands. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The fragment is very loosely woven; it is similar to Cat. no. 629 [EA1990.491].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. 630 on p. 185 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 185-186 & 198, vol. ii p. 185 fig. 630
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