Tab with vegetal shape, linked stars, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Tab with vegetal shape, linked stars, 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 resist, and dyed blue; with a hem and stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 15 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.
EA1990.183
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Catalogue text
A tab with a surround of linked stars and small, eight-petalled rosettes in the lower corners; the centre has a vegetal form with an oval in the centre and leaf terminals. In addition, there is a fragmentary border with a line of zigzag. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Stitching, hemmed edges. The top corner is made by folding over the long sides into triangles, to follow the outline of the tab.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. 175 on p. 49 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 49, vol. ii p. 49 fig. 175
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