Textile fragment with tab-shapes, linked rosettes, and an oval
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Title
Textile fragment with tab-shapes, linked rosettes, and an oval
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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 resist-dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 10.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1082
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Catalogue text
Two tab shapes, each containing a different version of a symmetrical plant, and a band of linked rosettes and an oval with tendrils emerging, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. The patterns are generally white on a red ground, and the background to both tabs is over-dyed with blue.
Selvedge with fragmentary remains of stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface, in particular for the red.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. 1075 on p. 320 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 320 fig. 1075
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