Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.5 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.28
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Catalogue text
Elaborate s-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes without central dots, and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 10 [EA1990.18]. The elaboration of the s-shapes gives them an angular appearance. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
A single reversed s helps to identify the block-size as 14.5 cm. x 9.5 cm.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. 20 on p. 6 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 6 fig. 20
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