Textile fragment with overlapping petals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with overlapping petals
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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 resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 18 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.
EA1990.1032
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Catalogue text
Overlapping petals, as in the previous textile [EA1990.1031], and no doubt originally part of a similar rosette medallion. The petals are red with white dots, and with additional blue details.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red, but slightly more for blue.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. 304 on p. 1025 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 304 fig. 1025
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