Textile fragment with rosettes and stars in dotted circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and stars in dotted circles
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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 resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 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.
EA1990.700
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes and small stars are set into beaded roundels with an outer ring of numerous petals. The entire flower-head is red with white outlines against a brown background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface, as well as some cracks in the resist.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. 693 on p. 204 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 204 fig. 693
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