Textile fragment with quatrefoils and medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and medallions
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, applied with resist (possibly by hand), mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; joined with an open seam in flax; with additional stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
46 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1053
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a large floral design, white with blue and red details on a red ground, followed by bands of red and white, small wheels, and a wider band with blue, white, and red quatrefoils set into medallions. This is sewn on to a smaller fragment with the same designs of bands.
Two fragments of the same fabric are sewn together with an open seam, and additional stitching continuous along the side of the longer fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. As for Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049] and the following fragments, the resist may have been added by hand.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. 1046 on p. 310 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 310 fig. 1046
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