Textile fragment with rosette, lobed shape, squares, and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosette, lobed shape, squares, and hearts
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.708
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Catalogue text
An eight-lobed design with a red rosette at the centre, surrounded on four sides by a small square with two heart shapes attached. In addition there are very small flowers, and fragments of rosettes or medallions. The pattern is white with brown outlines on a red ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 701 on p. 206 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 206 fig. 701
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