Tab with stars, circles, and crosses
Details
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Title
Tab with stars, circles, and crosses
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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 stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
total, with EA1990.176.a 14 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
10.8 x 8.9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 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.
EA1990.176.b
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Catalogue text
A tab with a surround of stars and four circles, a circle and hatching of lines inside, as in Cat. no. 167 [EA1990.175]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Found to be in two pieces when taken off the original cardboard backing. Accessioned as 1990.176a and b.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. 168 on p. 46 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 46, vol. ii p. 46 fig. 168
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