Textile fragment with animals, stars, and heart
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with animals, stars, and heart
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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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed light-brown; with rolled hems in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37.5 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 24 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.
EA1990.267
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Catalogue text
Narrow border on three sides containing small, diagonally placed ovals, and a centre field with animals (dog, lion, fish, and bird), as well as stars, rosettes, and a heart shape. Light brown and very faint lines give details to the forms. The resist defines and fills the pattern, the background is blue.
Rolled hems on three sides, with much of the silk stitching remaining.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. 258 on p. 74 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 74 fig. 258
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