Textile fragment with rosettes, small cartouches, and a tab-shape
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, small cartouches, and a tab-shape
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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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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 6 cm (warp x weft)
12 / 9 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.
EA1990.680
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Catalogue text
A narrow band with small cartouches and a tab, as in Cat. no. 672 [EA1990.679], in red and white with brown outlines against a red ground. An additional band of small, red, eight-petalled rosettes on white ground, and fragmentary evidence of further bands with ?floral designs.
A selvedge coincides with the band of rosettes. 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)
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. 673 on p. 199 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 199 fig. 673
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