Textile fragment with squares, elaborate quatrefoils, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, elaborate quatrefoils, and flowers
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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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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.711
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Catalogue text
A square within a square, the outer one with a wide border of dots, the inner one with tendrils and small flowers. A rosette is at the centre, and elaborate quatrefoils and flowers surround the squares. The pattern is generally white on a brown ground, but the brown is occasionally reserved for the outline. The background to all designs is red.
The reverse shows 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. 704 on p. 207 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 207 fig. 704
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