Textile fragment with rosettes, flower-heads, arches, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, flower-heads, arches, and tendrils
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 10 / 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.
EA1990.491
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Catalogue text
Three bands; the first with small, red rosettes against a white background, and a brown, ?circular pattern in faint outline; the second has an uncertain design in brown outlines against a white ground; see Cat. no. 630 [EA1990.636] for more detail. The third has flower-heads linked by tendrils, white against a red ground.
[The fragment is very loosely woven. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. Possibly part of 1990.636 and 1990.637?]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. 629 on p. 185 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 185-186, vol. ii p. 185 fig. 629
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