Textile fragment with S-shapes, quatrefoils, and rosettes set into linked stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, quatrefoils, and rosettes set into linked stars
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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
32 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block (border) 14 x 8.5 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.
EA1990.203
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Catalogue text
A border band with oval medallions containing an ornate rosette and having a surround of tendrils and leaves, alternating with clusters of four eight-petalled rosettes set into linked stars, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A narrow band of a sawtooth pattern is on either side. The main field of the fragment has a continuous pattern of s-shapes, quatrefoils, and eight-petalled rosettes without a central dot, as in Cat. no. 1 [EA1990.9]. A single large oval also appears in the field.
The block used in the border band is 14 cm. x 8.5 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. 195 on p. 55 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 55 fig. 195
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