Textile fragment with grid of squares and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of squares and circles
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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, and dyed blue or applied with grey; with remains of 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
41 x 10.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.447
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Catalogue text
Small squares are diagonally arranged as a grid design, every second one has a circle inside; a border band with a continuous vine. The latter band has the pattern in white against a dark background, while the grid of squares is blue or grey against a light ground.
Stitching along three sides. Same soiling as Cat. no. 436 [EA1990.443]. The reverse shows very little dye saturation.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. 440 on p. 130 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 130 fig. 440
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