Textile fragment with tendrils and medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and medallions
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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 mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.309
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Catalogue text
A dense network of tendrils and stylized vegetal forms, some in the shape of medallions. The red provides the background, the design is white.
The dye has not saturated the reverse. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.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. 300 on p. 89 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 89 fig. 300
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