Textile fragment with bands of medallions, quatrefoils, and stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of medallions, quatrefoils, and stylized plants
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
41.5 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.915
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Catalogue text
Bands of various designs: two with medallions filled with floral designs, two with diagonal rows of small quatrefoils, one with parallel rows of very small, linked ovals, and finally the widest band which has two types of stylized plants, possibly trees, as in Cat. no. 905 [EA1990.911]. In general the patterns are white on a red ground, but in the bands of stylized trees and the medallions, some parts are filled with blue.
Selvedge, with all bands arranged to move at right angles to it. The reverse shows slightly more 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. 909 on p. 270 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 277-278, vol. ii p. 270 fig. 909
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