Textile fragment with bands of circles, arches, stars, tendrils, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of circles, arches, stars, tendrils, and rosettes
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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 red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 16 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 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.
EA1990.595
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Catalogue text
Three parallel bands, two with a row of small discs filled with tiny dots, and flanked by small arches and stars, and a third between them with separate tendrils and small rosettes. The former bands are white on a brown ground, the latter is white on a red ground.
The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 588 on pp. 173-174 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 174, vol. ii p. 173 fig. 588
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