Textile fragment with arches or stupas, and arches probably based on kufic script
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Title
Textile fragment with arches or stupas, and arches probably based on kufic script
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 13 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.
EA1990.580
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Catalogue text
A band with a pattern that can be read either as white arches against a red ground, or as red stupas. The shape has a cluster of nine squares inside. On either side of this band is another band with small roundels, lines, and arches, white against a brown background. The same combination of bands is repeated at right angles.
The arches probably have their source in Kufic script. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Glossary of terms
kufic
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. 573 on pp. 169-170 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 170 & 174, vol. ii p. 169 fig. 573
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