Textile fragment with tendrils, elaborate rosettes, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, elaborate rosettes, and squares
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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
14 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 7.5 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.
EA1990.859
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Catalogue text
A continous field of small, densely set, white tendrils, with squares and elaborate rosettes made up from three circles of leaves. The pattern is set on a red ground, and the centres of the rosettes have brown details. There also is a very narrow brown border along the selvedge, with a row of small white rosettes.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 7.5 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. 853 on p. 251 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 251, vol. ii p. 251 fig. 853
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