Textile fragment with rosettes, diamond-shapes, and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, diamond-shapes, and stars
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37 x 36 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.1013
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Catalogue text
Bands and compartments filled with rosettes or diamond shapes, all separated by narrow bands with rows of stars, similar to Cat. no. 1004 [EA1990.1011], although the details of patterns are different.
The fabric is loosely woven from very fine thread. It is not possible to distinguish between surface and reverse, and the blue may have been directly applied to 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. 1006 on p. 298 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 298, vol. ii p. 298 fig. 1006
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