Textile fragment with bands of rosettes, leaves, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of rosettes, leaves, 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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 8.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 13 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.
EA1990.645
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Catalogue text
A border with a row of rosettes alternating with two linked leaves, white on brown ground with some red fillers. On either side of the band is a single row of white dots on brown and a fragmentary design in red and brown.
A selvedge is parallel to the band. The pattern is equally precise on the surface and reverse.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. 639 on p. 188 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 188 fig. 639
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