Textile fragment with quatrefoils and heart-shaped petals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and heart-shaped petals
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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
21.5 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.773
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Catalogue text
Quatrefoils with heart-shaped brown petals which are filled with white tendrils, and a red centre with a small square. The quatrefoils are linked in one direction and are otherwise separated by small circles, possibly in bandhani imitation.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 10 cm. x 9.5 cm.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. 766 on p. 225 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 225 fig. 766
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