Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils 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; with a seam or intake stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 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.
EA1990.857
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Catalogue text
Narrow brown bands with white tendrils and half-rosettes, partly at right angles to each other, and the beginning of a white band with a single red radiating diamond. In addition, there appears the beginning of a field with small, densely set red tendrils and flowers on white ground. All patterns are as in Cat. no. 850 [EA1990.856].
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. There is a white seam or intake. The fragment was probably once part of the same fabric as Cat. no. 850 [EA1990.856].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. 851 on p. 250 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 250 fig. 851
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