Textile fragment with Persian script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Persian script
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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 and possibly hand-applied with mordant, and dyed red, with some traces of blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 22 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.
EA1990.379
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of circles and ornate tendrils next to a selvedge border of peaked ?towers, and a wide band of script, possibly hand-drawn. The latter is red on a white background, while the narrow band is white against a red ground.
Selvedge; some traces of blue. Surface and reverse show the design equally clearly. The inscription is in Persian.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. 377 on p. 112 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 112 fig. 377
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