Textile fragment with rosettes and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes 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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 10 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.861
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of red tendrils and rosettes, with one rosette per block dyed brown. The background is white.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 10 cm.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. 855 on p. 251 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 251 fig. 855
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