Textile fragment with stylized plants, a cartouche, and interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants, a cartouche, and interlace
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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, mordant-dyed red, and 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
13.5 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 20 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.
EA1990.1116
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Catalogue text
A border with a cartouche showing intricate, white interlace on a red ground, as well as single white leaves. On either side is a narrow band with a continuous vine and a sawtooth border. In addition, there is the beginning of an overall design which has its origin in the stylized plant pattern of Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114].
Selvedge parallel to the bands. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface.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. 1109 on p. 332 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 332 fig. 1109
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