Textile fragment with floral quatrefoil, tendrils, and foliage

Title

Textile fragment with floral quatrefoil, tendrils, and foliage
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

16.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.237

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Catalogue text

A centralized floral pattern based on a quatrefoil is given a border of geometricized tendrils. In alternation with it are tendrils and foliage in quadripartite arrangement and a small square at the centre. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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