Textile fragment with medallions and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and rosettes
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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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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
10 x 20 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.793
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Catalogue text
A band of medallions with a beaded surround and a large red flower inside which has a white rosette at the centre. The space between the medallions is filled with small white tendrils on a red ground. On either side of the band are two smaller bands with single rows of rosettes, white on a brown ground. The design is parallel to the selvedge.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 786 on p. 231 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 231 fig. 786
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