Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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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 mordant-dyed brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.294
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Catalogue text
Elaborate chevrons, each with a trefoil on the tip, as in Cat. nos. 22 [EA1990.30] and 283 [EA1990.292]. The design can be read either as red on a white ground, or white on a red ground.
The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 285 on p. 85 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 85 fig. 285
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