Textile fragment with part of a large circle and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with part of a large circle and leaves
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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
28 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.775
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Catalogue text
Fragment of a large circle surrounded by a narrow beaded band of white dots on brown, small red leaves on white ground, radiating outwards, and a second beaded band. The centre apparently held four white flowers, with brown outlines on a red ground. A large red leaf filled with white dots, and the tip of a brown leaf are similar in design to Cat. no. 679 [EA1990.686].
The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 768 on p. 225 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 225 fig. 768
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