Textile fragment with medallions and zigzags
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and zigzags
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (possibly partly by hand), 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
23 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 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.
EA1990.1050
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Catalogue text
A border band with a corner at a right angle, filled with small, red medallions and a zigzag border, identical to the band of Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049].
The resist application may at least partly be done by hand drawing. The reverse shows slightly more 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. 1043 on pp. 309-310 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 309 fig. 1043
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