Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized flower-heads, and lines with dots
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized flower-heads, and lines with dots
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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 resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
57 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 26 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.141
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of linked squares with two different patterns inside. One is probably a stylized flower-head, the other is a line with two dots on either side. The resist defines the design.
The pattern is a miniaturized version of the design of Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146]. Identical fragments were found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 3, 5-9, 12-13, 15, 17a and b, 24, 31, & 38-39).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. 133 on p. 36 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 3 & 36-37, vol. ii p. 36 fig. 133
