Textile fragment with small rosettes and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with small rosettes and tendrils
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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 remains of stitching, possibly in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.489
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of small, brown rosettes against white, and white tendrils, both against a red background, as in Cat. no. 482 [EA1990.488].
Selvedge and remains of stitching. Some of the rosettes have disintegrated. The reverse shows only partial 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. 483 on p. 144 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 144 fig. 483
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