Textile fragment with interlocking circles, interlaced tendrils, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking circles, interlaced tendrils, and flower-heads
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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
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count) -
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.
EA1990.692
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Catalogue text
Various different bands of stylized floral designs; one with interlocking circles, white with brown dots on a background of red, as in Cat. no. 617 [EA1990.624], a second with a square containing an elaborate quatrefoil made up from interlaced tendrils, and a third with crossed tendrils and flower-heads, as in Cat. no. 617 [EA1990.659]. The patterns of these two bands are both white on red ground. The bands are separated by narrow borders with small white patterns on brown ground.
A selvedge is at right angles to the bands. The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye 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. 685 on p. 202 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 202, vol. ii p. 202 fig. 685
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