Textile fragment with pointed ovals and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pointed ovals and rosettes
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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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 x 9 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.981
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Catalogue text
Blue, white, and red rosettes and pointed ovals with blue quatrefoils inside are surrounded by lines of small half-rosettes that follow the oval outlines. The rosettes are white with blue centres against a red background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12.5 cm. x 9 cm.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. 975 on p. 290 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 290 fig. 975
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