Textile fragment with ornate floral design and a large half-medallion
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with ornate floral design and a large half-medallion
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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
16.5 x 16 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.642
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Catalogue text
A wide band with ornate floral design and a large half-medallion; the design is generally white with brown outlines on a red ground. Adjacent to this are two narrow bands, one with crosses and discs, the other with half-rosettes, white on a brown ground.
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. 636 on p. 187 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 187 fig. 636
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