Textile fragment with arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown
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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 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 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.
EA1990.394
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Catalogue text
A curving row of arches filled with dots and leaf shapes, with narrow bands on either side, one of which has a row of bodhi tree leaves. The design is similar to Cat. no. 218 [EA1990.226]; it is white against a brown background.
Selvedge. The pattern is slightly blurred on 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. 366 on p. 109 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 109 fig. 366
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