Textile fragment with flowers, quatrefoils, and rosettes
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, quatrefoils, 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 resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 9.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 20 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.106
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled flowers and single dots create a grid of squares, which are filled with either a rosette or a quatrefoil, similar to Cat. no. 97 [EA1990.105]. The rosette, however, has wedge-shaped petals and no dot in the centre. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge, and remains of blue stitching on all four sides. Overlapping of the pattern at the block edge. A very small fragment remains at the side opposite the selvedge, probably part of a fabric that was once sewn on at this point.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. 98 on p. 26 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 26 fig. 98
