Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
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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; with repair stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 18 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.
EA1990.11
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes with central dot, and four-petalled flowers. The s-shapes are arranged to form the sides of a square, the four-petalled flowers are at the corners, and the rosette at the centre. The design is defined by the resist, the background is blue.
Some stitching, probably to mend the fragment.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. 3 on p. 1 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 1-5, vol. ii p. 1 fig. 3
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