Textile fragment with arches, rosettes, and crossed tendrils
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with arches, rosettes, and crossed tendrils
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
24 x 11.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 10 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.637
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
-
Catalogue text
Two bands of arches filled with floral designs, in brown lines on a white ground, are set on either side of a band with crossed tendrils and flowers. The latter band is white on a red ground. Next to one of the rows of arches is a band of red rosettes on a white ground, with brown lines superimposed.
A selvedge is at right angles to the bands. The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye than the surface. The fragment is very loosely woven; it may be part of the same textile as Cat. nos. 629 and 630 [EA1990.491 and EA1990.636].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. 631 on p. 186 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 185 & 198, vol. ii p. 186 fig. 631
Reference URL
