Textile fragment with linked circles and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked circles and stars
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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, and mordant-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
40.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.726
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of large linked circles; each has a beaded surround and contains a white star with red and brown dots inside. A small rosette is set into the space between the circles. The pattern is as in Cat. no. 558 [EA1990.565].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm.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. 720 on p. 212 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 166 & 212, vol. ii p. 212 fig. 720
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