Textile fragment with cartouches, squares, and medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cartouches, squares, and medallions
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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 remains of a seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 13 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.
EA1990.771
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Catalogue text
Linked cartouches, squares, and medallions against a red background, as in Cat. no. 763 [EA1990.770]. The pattern is brown with white outlines, and filled with white tendrils.
Remains of a seam along one edge of the fragment. This is diagonal to the weave. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fragment probably was part of the same fabric as Cat. no. 763 [EA1990.770].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. 764 on p. 224 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 224, vol. ii p. 224 fig. 764
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