Textile fragment with hearts, trefoils, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hearts, trefoils, and quatrefoils
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 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.
EA1990.963
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Catalogue text
Two wide bands, one with thick, stylized tendrils arranged as regular heart and trefoil shapes, the other with ornate quatrefoils surrounded by tendrils. All design is white with red outlines on a light blue ground. The two bands are separated by two narrow bands, one with a row of small medallions, also white and red on a blue ground, the other with a continuous vine that is white on a red ground.
Surface and reverse show an identical degree of dye saturation and precision of outline, so that it is not possible to comment on the process of dye application.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. 957 on p. 284 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 295, vol. ii p. 284 fig. 957
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