Textile fragment with stems, leaves, and rosettes

Title

Textile fragment with stems, leaves, and rosettes
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

18 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.266

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Catalogue text

Large medallion or circle, with curving bands of stems, leaves, and rosettes. There is an alternation between the resist defining the design and the background, therefore the plants and flowers are either white or blue.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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