Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized flower-heads, and lines with dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized flower-heads, and lines with dots
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in blue and white flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 28 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.
EA1990.143
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Catalogue text
An arrangement of squares with two different designs, one with a stylized ?flower, the other with a line and two dots on either side, as in Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. Additional narrow band with a continuous scroll. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some stitching. Identical fragments, including the continuous scroll motif, were found at Quseir al-Qadim. This fragment was given a C-14 date of 1335 CE+/-50. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 7-8. See 1990.141 for additional finds that have the linked squares without the vine border.)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. 135 on p. 36 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 36 fig. 135 & vol. i pl. 6
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