Textile fragment with medallions and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and flowers
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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, block-printed with resist, 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
20.5 x 4.5 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 14 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.
EA1990.1105
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of small, red medallions, linked and filled with white tendrils. Between the clusters of medallions is a blue area filled with red flowers.
A selvedge. The design is printed to continue beyond the selvedge. The reverse shows less saturation for brown and red, and 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. 1098 on p. 328 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 328 fig. 1098
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