Textile fragment with small rosettes and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with small rosettes and dots
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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, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23.5 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.486
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of small, eight-petalled, brown and red rosettes, and dots placed between them. The design is outlined in white against a red background.
The parts of the textile dyed brown have, to some degree, dissolved, which indicates the use of an iron mordant with a long-term destructive effect.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. 479 on pp. 143-144 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 143 fig. 479
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