Textile fragment with rosettes and stylized tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and stylized tendrils
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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 and brown; with remains of stitching in blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
47 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.488
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of small rosettes, brown against white, and small, stylized, white tendrils. The background is red.
Remains of blue stitching along one side. Some of the rosettes have disintegrated due to a chemical reaction caused by the mordant used. The block size was 11 cm. x 7.5 cm. The reverse is only partly saturated with dye.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. 482 on p. 144 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 144, vol. ii p. 144 fig. 482
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