Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
mid-13th century -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 17.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 17 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.
EA1990.509
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Catalogue text
Interlocking rosettes and small quatrefoils, with the same ambiguity in reading the design as in the group of textiles starting with Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]. This fragment is particularly close in design to Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].
Selvedge, stitching. The pattern is blurred on the reverse. Probably 13th century; see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].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. 502 on p. 149 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 150-151, vol. ii p. 149 fig. 502
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