Textile fragment with half-medallion, parts of squares, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with half-medallion, parts of squares, and flowers
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 14 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.
EA1990.781
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Catalogue text
A half medallion and parts of squares, defined by narrow white bands with dots inside, and surrounded by naturalistic sprigs of flowers, all white on a red ground. Adjacent to it is a band of small arrows and discs under arches, white on brown ground. The fragment is similar to Cat. no. 773 [EA1990.780].
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. 774 on p. 227 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 227 fig. 774
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