Textile fragment with medallions, rosettes, and vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions, rosettes, and vines
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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
33.5 x 20.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block (narrow bands) 13 x 4 cm estimated (length x width)
block (wide band) 10 x 10 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.640
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands of intertwined continuous vines, white with brown outlines against a red ground, are set on either side of a wide band of medallions which have five small rosettes inside and half-circles along the border. The medallions are white against a red ground.
A selvedge is parallel to the bands. The block used for the narrow bands is 13 cm. x 4 cm., the one for the wide band is 10 cm. x 10 cm. 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. 634 on p. 187 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 311, vol. ii p. 187 fig. 634
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