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; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 19 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.
EA1990.754
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of pointed ovals, each with a beaded surround and filled with two different types of tendrils, white against brown, identical to Cat. no. 746 [EA1990.753]. In addition there are narrow bands of small arches and a continuous vine, white on brown, white parallel poles against red, and a red band with brown medallions filled with white tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 8.5 cm. As design and technical details are similar to the previous fragment [EA1990.753], both textiles may have been part of the same fabric.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. 747 on pp. 219-220 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 219, vol. ii p. 219 fig. 747
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