Textile fragment with medallions and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions 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, dyed red, and then 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
20 x 15.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
block 13 x 7.5 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.
EA1990.743
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Catalogue text
Medallions, red with white outlines for an oval, lobed frame and four tendrils inside; brown squares with white details, of a hatched border and four stylized, short tendrils. The red background is filled entirely with stylized tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The block size used was 13 cm. x 7.5 cm. Some overlapping of the brown squares indicates that all red parts were stamped and dyed first, then the brown design was stamped and dyed.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. 736 on p. 216 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 216 fig. 736
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