Textile fragment with medallion, wings, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion, wings, and rosettes
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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, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 8 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 15 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.
EA1990.979
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Catalogue text
A red and blue medallion with a flower at the centre and two pairs of red and blue wings are linked by a red rosette with brown tendrils on a white background. All details are outlined in brown.
Selvedge, with the design printed to extend beyond it. The reverse shows less dye saturation for both red and brown, but considerably more for the blue.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. 973 on p. 289 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 289 fig. 973
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