Textile fragment with medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27 x 14 cm max. (warp x weft)
along length/width 15 / 15 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.
EA1990.1029
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Catalogue text
A wide design field with fragments of white, red, and blue round medallions on a blue ground, followed by a band with blue, oval medallions defined by red and white outlines and set on a blue ground. Finally there is the beginning of a design with triangular bandhani imitation, white on red.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for red, but slightly more for blue.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. 1022 on p. 303 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 303 fig. 1022
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