Textile fragment, possibly with squares and stylized animals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment, possibly with squares and stylized animals
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), 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
17 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 10 / 12 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.
EA1990.147
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a large square with undefined shapes inside: the pattern is a crude version of Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146]. An additional band might be an attempt of a rosette border, as in Cat. no. 140 [EA1990.148]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The design is a large version of Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. Because of its affinity to Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146], it may also represent a tree-of-life with flanking animals. The pattern probably was drawn by hand. A fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim is identical, even to the presence of the border. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 69.)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. 139 on p. 37 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 37 fig. 139
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