Textile fragment with medallion and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion and 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; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
13 / 7 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.
EA1990.258
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Catalogue text
Medallion set into a square made up from four quatrefoils. The medallion has a beaded surround, and inside are set two elaborate star shapes, one within the other. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge, stitching. Although the design is finely printed, the textile uses a coarse thread which has allowed little of the resist to penetrate to the back.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. 249 on p. 72 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 72 fig. 249
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