Textile fragment with circles, tendrils, rosettes, and arches

Title

Textile fragment with circles, tendrils, rosettes, and arches
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

mordant dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

34 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.573

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Catalogue text

Three narrow bands of circles with dots inside, which relate to the band of rosettes and small arches in Cat. no. 565 [EA1990.572]. The design is white against a brown ground. These bands frame a wide and a narrow band with the pattern in white against a red ground;one has crossed tendrils and single rosettes, the other shows small rosettes with stems set into arches, and additional rosettes and parallel lines above the arches.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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