Textile fragment with rosettes in a grid of stars and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in a grid of 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 mordant-dyed brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 11.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.280
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Catalogue text
Twelve-petalled rosettes, each with a small circle as a centre, set into a grid of small stars and dots. The pattern is light against a brown background.
The reverse shows considerably more dye saturation than the surface.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. 271 on pp. 81-82 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 81 fig. 271
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