Textile fragment with rosettes and squares with crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and squares with crosses
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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 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
29 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 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.
EA1990.100
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes and two versions of squares with a blue cross inside: one dividing the square into four equal sections, the other smaller than the square. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The fragment is badly stained and brown.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. 92 on p. 25 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 31, vol. ii p. 25 fig. 92
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