Textile fragment with rosettes and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and tendrils
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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; with a rolled hem in yellow silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.856
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Catalogue text
Narrow, brown bands filled with white semi-rosettes and quatrefoils are set at various angles around a field of small, red rosettes linked by tendrils, closely placed on a white ground. There also is the beginning of a large rosette or medallion, red on white ground, and a red floral shape, also on white ground.
A rolled hem is sewn with yellow silk. 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. 850 on p. 250 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 250, vol. ii p. 250 fig. 850
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