Textile fragment with pointed ovals, squares, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pointed ovals, squares, and tendrils
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.789
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Catalogue text
Two design field with incongruous patterns; one is the beginning of a large medallion which includes red leaves and small red rosettes on a white ground, with brown outlines. The other pattern is composed of fine white lines on a red ground, and it has pointed ovals, small squares, as well as heart-shaped leaves surrounded by thin tendrils.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 782 on p. 229 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 229 fig. 782
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