Textile fragment with ornate medallions, leaves, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with ornate medallions, leaves, 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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 7.5 cm estimated (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.
EA1990.311
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Catalogue text
Large, ornate medallions filled with stylized leaves and tendrils and an eight-petalled flower at the centre, all red against a white background; a smaller, lobed medallion with an ornate quatrefoil at the centre and surrounded by tendrils, white against a red background.
The edge of the printing block is visible in two parallel lines of mismatching; the width of the block was 7.5 cm. The dye has not saturated the reverse.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. 302 on p. 90 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 90 fig. 302
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