Textile fragment with quatrefoil, stylized stem, and leaf
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoil, stylized stem, and leaf
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 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.
EA1990.797
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Catalogue text
Two blocks of different design and colour, one with a red quatrefoil and vine leaves on a white ground, the other with a large, stylized stem and leaf, surrounded by small tendrils, white on a brown ground. Alongside both blocks is a narrow band with small white rosettes on a brown background.
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. 790 on p. 232 fig. 790, vol. ii p. 232 fig. 790
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