Textile fragment with pointed ovals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pointed 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 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
10.5 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 18 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.
EA1990.756
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Catalogue text
Brown pointed ovals with two types of white tendrils inside, one version with a beaded frame. The background is red; the pattern and dye appearance are identical to Cat. no. 748 [EA1990.755].
The fragment has the same discrepancy in thread count as in Cat. no. 748 [EA1990.755]. The identical pattern and dye quality suggest that they were part of the same fabric; see also the following fragment [EA1990.757]. 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. 749 on p. 220 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 220, vol. ii p. 220 fig. 749
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