Textile fragment with indented ovals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with indented ovals
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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 mordant, and dyed brown and red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 6 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 17 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.
EA1990.501
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Catalogue text
Red and brown oval shapes with indented outlines, and with a small oval at the centre, as in Cat. no. 493 [EA1990.500]. Red and brown alternate, and the background is white.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface.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. 494 on p. 147 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 147 fig. 494
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