Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and dots
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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
22 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 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.
EA1990.101
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes, irregular stars, and small dots. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Irregularities in the pattern are repeated after 11 cm., thus defining the length of one block side.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. 93 on p. 25 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 30, vol. ii p. 25 fig. 93
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