Textile fragment with plants, half-medallions, and bands of rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants, half-medallions, and bands of rosettes
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching, possibly in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
34 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 7 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.
EA1990.603
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Catalogue text
A wide band with plants emerging from stylized mounds that take the form of half-medallions: a single plant with a thin stem and a flower with long petals, seen in profile, and two plants emerging from one base; similar to Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], but the two connected plants are symmetrical here. Thepattern is white on a red ground. Two narrow bands with a row of small rosettes, white on a brown ground, and flanked by a line of brown dots on each side; one of these bands is at right angles to the wide band.
The block used measured 12 cm. x 7 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 596 on p. 176 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 176, vol. ii p. 176 fig. 596
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