Textile fragment with squares, crosses, dots, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, crosses, dots, 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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.425
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Catalogue text
Squares with indented sides and filled with crosses and dots. They are surrounded by tendrils with serrated outlines and culminating in leaves, as well as by linked, heart-shaped ?flowers. The design is red on a light ground.
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. 418 on pp. 123-124 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 123 fig. 418
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