Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted circles
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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
20.5 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.697
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Catalogue text
A band with twelve-petalled, red rosettes, each set into a brown, beaded roundel; brown, stylized plants fill the space between each disc. In addition, two large, ornate rosettes, white with brown filling, are set against a red background.
The reverse shows additional dye saturation to the surface, as well as some cracks in the resist.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. 690 on p. 203 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 203 fig. 690
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