Textile fragment with rosettes and possibly columns
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and possibly columns
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and applied with blue dye
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 30 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 21 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.
EA1990.919
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Catalogue text
A row of alternating stylized ?columns and rosettes, each supported by a stem, and set onto a base of dots, as in Cat. no. 536 [EA1990.543]. The pattern is white on a dark red ground, with a few of the rosette centres and column capitals filled with blue. The pattern is also similar to Cat. no. 161 [EA1990.169], which is dyed with indigo.
Selvedge at right angles to the design. It is impossible to distinguish between surface and reverse, as the design is equally well defined on either. It also is not possible to discern how the blue was applied; the complete lack of cracking lines on the reverse suggest a surface application rather than immersion.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. 913 on p. 271 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 271 fig. 913
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