Textile fragment with floral quatrefoil, tendrils, and foliage
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral quatrefoil, tendrils, and foliage
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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 resist, and 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
16.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 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.
EA1990.237
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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)
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. 228 on p. 65 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 65 fig. 228
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