Textile fragment with pointed ovals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pointed ovals
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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
23 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 8.5 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.
EA1990.753
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of brown pointed ovals with two different types of white tendrils inside and a beaded frame. The background is red, and very small circles are set between the ovals.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 8.5 cm.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. 746 on p. 219 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 219-220, vol. ii p. 219 fig. 746
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