Textile fragment with linked medallions and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked medallions and stars
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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 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
18.5 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 22 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.
EA1990.745
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Catalogue text
Large linked medallions are filled with elaborate star shapes of two types. One has a star or rosette at the centre and increasingly large stars surrounding it, separated by borders of flower-heads; it is red and brown on a white ground. The other is made up from a delicate continuous tendril, which traces the outline of the star. Four flowers emerge from this, of which only three survive, and there is a small rosette at the centre. The medallion frames are white with brown dots.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surfaceIn: 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. 738 on p. 217 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 217 fig. 738
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