Textile fragment with parts of circles, stylized bodhi leaves, and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with parts of circles, stylized bodhi leaves, and diamond-shapes
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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 red; with remains of stitching in blue and white flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 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.
EA1990.344
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Catalogue text
Fragment of two large ?circular shapes, each framed by loops and an interlace border; bands of stylized bodhi tree leaves and diamonds, as in Cat. no. 333 [EA1990.341]. The design is defined by white outlines against a red background and filling.
Remains of blue and white stitching. The reverse is saturated with dye.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. 337 on p. 100 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 100 fig. 337
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