Textile fragment with medallion and linked floral design
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion and linked floral design
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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
18.5 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 20 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.
EA1990.724
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Catalogue text
An elaborate, linked floral design; one part of it represents a medallion with a rosette at its centre. The pattern is white with brown outlines, as well as red and brown details. The background is red.
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. 717 on p. 211 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 211 fig. 717
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