Textile fragment with rosettes, quatrefoil, diamond-shapes, and stylized trees

Title

Textile fragment with rosettes, quatrefoil, diamond-shapes, and stylized trees
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

29.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.212

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Catalogue text

Bands of floral design framed by rows of beads; in one band a twelve-petalled rosette alternates with an ornate quatrefoil, as in Cat. no. 113 [EA1990.121], in the other an eight-petalled rosette alternates with a diamond shape containing a small rosette of dots. In the latter the design is set into squares framed by lines of dots, as in Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. On one side of the bands are twelve-petalled rosettes, on the other stylized trees, every second one supported by a triangular mound. The resist defines the pattern.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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