Textile fragment with stylized plants and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed reddish-brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 25.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10.5 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.319
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Catalogue text
Stylized two-leaved plants, one leaf filled with dots; these are arranged around central quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 309 [EA1990.318]. The design is defined by white outlines, but filled with red against a red background.
The design is not as carefully executed as in the previous fragment [EA1990.318]. The size of the block was 10.5 cm. x 7.5 cm. The reverse is saturated with dye. Possibly 15th century, see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804].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. 310 on p. 92 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92 fig. 310
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