Textile fragment with quatrefoil and star-shaped flower
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoil and star-shaped flower
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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, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 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.
EA1990.982
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Catalogue text
White tendrils and red and white flower garlands surround a quatrefoil and a star-shaped flower. All patterns have a brown outline, and the background is blue.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface for brown and red, but more for the blue.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. 976 on p. 290 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 290 fig. 976
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