Tab with cartouche and stylized plant
Details
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Title
Tab with cartouche and stylized plant
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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 red and brown, and resist-dyed blue; with a rolled hem in white and blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 9 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 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.
EA1990.1087
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Catalogue text
A single tab defined by brown and white outlines, and containing a cartouche and stylized plant, as in the border of tabs in Cat. no. 1078 [EA1990.1085]. At the base of the tab is a narrow band of small, brown dots and the beginning of a design of linked diamonds, also similar to Cat. no. 1078 [EA1990.1085].
A selvedge along one side of the tab. A rolled hem is sewn around the outlines of the tab, with the exception of the selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but far more for 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. 1080 on p. 322 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 322 fig. 1080
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