Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 8 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 19 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.
EA1990.772
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of brown cartouches and rosettes with white outlines and tendrils inside, all linked by small floral shapes, similar to Cat. no. 763 [EA1990.770]. The background is red and has small white dots.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 765 on p. 224 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 224 fig. 765
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