Textile fragment with arches or petals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches or 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 resist, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 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.
EA1990.1047
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Catalogue text
Fragment with bands, possibly part of a large medallion. A wider band contains arches or petals alternating with stylized trees or columns, identical to Cat. no. 1028 [EA1990.1035]. The arches are reddish brown and filled with different dots, while the background is blue. Narrow bands with stylized bodhi leaves separate the wide bands.
Two single stitches are on one side of the fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation for both red and 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. 1040 on pp. 308-309 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1040
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