Textile fragment with medallions and large quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and large 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 resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 21.2 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 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.
EA1990.249
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Catalogue text
Continuous vines form medallions with large quatrefoils in the centre. The vines are filled with dots, and, where two converge, they form knots. The design includes a corner. The resist gives the motif outlines, the patterns partly appear in blue. The background also is blue.
Stitching.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. 240 on p. 69 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 69 fig. 240
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