Textile fragment with rosettes or wheel-shapes, flowers, and plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes or wheel-shapes, flowers, and plants
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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, 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
24 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
blocks 7.5 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.236
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Catalogue text
Rosettes or wheel shapes alternating with eight-leafed flowers, each taking up approximately one-quarter of the block, while an undulating plant with leaves and flower-heads covers the remainder. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
It is likely that the design was printed with two square blocks, each measuring approximately 7.5 cm. x 7.5 cm.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. 227 on p. 65 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 65 fig. 227
Audinet, Karthika, ‘Fustat Fragments: Indian Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection’, Textiles Asia Journal, 10, Issue 3, (January 2019), fig. 3 on p. 21
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