Textile fragment with flowers, quatrefoils, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, quatrefoils, 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 resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 12.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.105
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled flowers and single dots form a grid of squares, each containing either a quatrefoil, or an eight-petalled rosette with a dot at the centre. The arrangement is comparable to Cat. no. 90 [EA1990.98]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge. Some overlapping of design identifies the length of one block side as 14 cm.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. 97 on p. 26 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 26-27, vol. ii p. 26 fig. 97 & vol. i pl. 26
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia’, Ars Orientalis, 34, (2004), p. 140, illus. p. 140 fig. 5
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