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 repair 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
23 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.755
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of brown pointed ovals with two types of tendrils inside, and a beaded frame around one version. The fragment is similar to Cat. no. 746 [EA1990.753], but the small circles are missing from the background, and the red of the background is more intense.
There is a remarkable difference in thread-count between the two weave systems. Three stitches hold together a tear in the fabric. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The length of one side of the block used was 12 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. 748 on p. 220 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 220, vol. ii p. 220 fig. 748
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