Textile fragment with rosettes and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes 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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and possibly hand-applied with brown dye
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 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.
EA1990.355
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Catalogue text
A band of large, eight-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre of each, and with trefoils set into the space between. On either side of the band there is a line of zigzag, as well as fragments of a large design, possibly floral. This has some brown added. The pattern is white against a red background and similar to Cat. no. 347 [EA1990.354].
The design is equally precise on surface and reverse; but [as] the colour is more intense on the surface[, the mordant was probably stamped]. The brown details may have been drawn by hand. It is likely that the fragment was part of Cat. no. 347 [EA1990.354].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. 348 on p. 103 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 103 fig. 348
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