Textile fragment with rosettes, leaves, and stems
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, leaves, and stems
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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, with traces of blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 19 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 16 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.
EA1990.786
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Catalogue text
A band with large rosettes alternating with a small one, and leaves and stems added, all red on a white ground. Adjacent to it is a narrow band with two entwined continuous vines, white on red; the bands have white borders with a single row of small brown dots. The wide band also has traces of blue, which does not follow any pattern.
Selvedge.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. 779 on p. 228 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 228 fig. 779
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