textile
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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.
EA1990.744
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Catalogue text
Medallions linked with small cartouches. The medallions are brown with white tendrils and a large red disc which in turn holds a four-cornered shape filled with tendrils and a red diamond. The brown cartouches also contain a red diamond and white tendrils.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 7.5 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. 737 on pp. 216-217 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 216 fig. 737 & vol. i pl. 29
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