Textile fragment with squares and rosettes

Title

Textile fragment with squares and rosettes
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

24 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.245

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Catalogue text

Band of squares with borders of dots, the motif inside alternating between a twelve-petalled rosette and a cluster of four small squares. On one side are the fragmentary remains of an ornate tree or leaf, with a beaded surround and its stem filled with dots; the other side has a field of small, six-petalled rosettes, as in Cat. no. 234 [EA1990.243].

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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