Textile fragment with circles and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles 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 resist, mordant-dyed light-red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.974
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Catalogue text
A band of blue circles and quatrefoils, each with a light red surround and a background of white, crossed lines on light red. On either side is a narrow border with an undulating white line and ?stylized leaves, followed by a white sawtooth edge on light red ground, and the beginning of a pattern too fragmentary to identify.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The patterns are very pale and are partly difficult to read.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. 968 on p. 288 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 288 fig. 968
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