Textile fragment with stylized trefoil plants

Title

Textile fragment with stylized trefoil plants
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Near East (possible) (possible place of creation)

India (possible) (possible place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue and green-blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

13.5 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.256

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Catalogue text

Trefoils set in diagonal rows, as in Cat. no. 245 [EA1990.254]. The resist defines the trefoils' outline.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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