textile, cover, banner, tent-hanging, curtain
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.190
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Catalogue text
Rectangular fabric with a five-lobed border of tabs; on the three sides not torn, the rectangle has a surrounding band with continuous vine and leaves, and its interior has a checkerboard pattern filled with small, lobed circles and a large medallion. The five tabs each have a different design, of geometric and stylized vegetal shapes.
Selvedge. There is blue stitching to hem the side and tabs. Light blue fills the checker-board and parts of the medallion. Some of the resist was probably applied by hand.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. 182 on p. 51 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 60, vol. ii p. 51 fig. 182 & vol. i pl. 32
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