Textile fragment with reversed S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with reversed S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
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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 remains of 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
10.5 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 17 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.
EA1990.17
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Catalogue text
Reversed s-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes without central dots, and quatrefoils, arranged as a regular, continuous pattern similar to Cat. no. 2 [EA1990.10]. All s-shapes have the same direction.
Some remains of stitching, mostly on the surface of 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. 9 on p. 3 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 3 fig. 9
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