Textile fragment with linked medallions and cartouches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked medallions and cartouches
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.746
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands with a single row of dots form the outlines of medallions linked by cartouches. The medallions are superimposed on an identical design, but set at right angles, which gives the total pattern the appearance of interlace. The background is red, the details brown and white.
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. 739 on p. 217 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 217 fig. 739
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