Textile fragment with rosettes and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and tendrils
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 11 / 12 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.
EA1990.737
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Catalogue text
Small red rosettes are set into brown circles; they are surrounded by thick, stylized, red tendrils with white dots inside, as in Cat. no. 560 [EA1990.567]. The background is white.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye. The brown circles have partly disintegrated.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. 730 on p. 215 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 215 fig. 730
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