Textile fragment with crescents and Turkish script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with crescents and Turkish script
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Associated place
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Date
probably 19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, printed with mordant, and dyed red and black
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
52 x 63 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 18 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.
EA1990.887
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Catalogue text
A large fragment with a continuous field of white and black crescents, each with a small, white flower and inscription inside. A second flower is placed near the curving back of the crescent. The background is dark red.
Two selvedges. The textile is not Indian, but Turkish, and it is likely to be of 19th-century date.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. 881 on p. 259 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 259 fig. 881
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