Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves 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 with mordant and dyed brown, mordant-dyed red, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and dyed pale-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.5 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 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.
EA1990.971
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Catalogue text
A blue band with two paired leaves alternating with two different quatrefoils; the outlines are brown, the individual designs are white and red. On either side of the band is a narrow, white border with a row of blue and red stepped diamonds. At right angles to the band is the beginning of five narrow bands, all with red patterns on white or pale blue ground. The patterns are too fragmentary to analyse.
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. 965 on p. 287 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 280 & 287-288, vol. ii p. 287 fig. 965
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