Textile fragment with rosettes, roundels, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, roundels, and quatrefoils
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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 mordant-dyed brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 13 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.
EA1990.329
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Catalogue text
A band with small, eight-petalled rosettes set into beaded, linked roundels, as in Cat. no. 318 [EA1990.327]; on one side is a field of spirals, on the other quatrefoils and small, eight-petalled rosettes. The latter design can also be compared to Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099], where it is more precisely defined, however. The spirals are white against a brown background, while the other pattern elements are generally brown against white.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.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. 320 on p. 95 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 95 fig. 320
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