Textile fragment with medallion and petals
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with medallion and petals
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
18 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.244
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
Know more about this object? Spotted an error? Contact us
-
Catalogue text
Medallion made up from bands of petals or leaf shapes separated by circles of dots; a twelve-petalled rosette at the centre. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 234 [EA1990.243]. The resist defines the outlines and interior shape of the design, but the latter is sometimes blue. The background is also blue.
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. 235 on p. 67 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 68, vol. ii p. 67 fig. 235
Reference URL
