Textile fragment with elaborate quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with elaborate quatrefoils
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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
24 x 7 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.747
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Catalogue text
Two versions of elaborate quatrefoils, linked and repeated in alternation. One has overlapping petals, the other has a brown roundel at the centre and is filled with white tendrils. The pattern has brown and white outlines and is filled with red.
The reverse show less dye saturation than the surface. One side of the block used is 9 cm. long.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. 740 on p. 217 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 217 fig. 740
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