Textile fragment with rings and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rings and quatrefoils
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.116
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Catalogue text
White rings and quatrefoils, linked to create a continuous pattern. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. Possibly there is an intentional differentiation between light and dark blue areas, which would set every second row of rings at the centre of a dark blue area, with four thin petals attached. This quadripartite division could be seen as the simplest version of a pattern that finds its elaboration in the four-petalled rondels with ambiguous reading, as in Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099].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. 108 on p. 29 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 139, vol. ii p. 29 fig. 108
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