Two tabs, one with a palmette, the other with a cross and leaves
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Title
Two tabs, one with a palmette, the other with a cross and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with a flat seam in cotton; with additional stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 5 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 20 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 19 / 25 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.
EA1990.186
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Catalogue text
Two small tabs sewn base to base. One contains a palmette, the other is diagonally crossed and has a curving, stylized leaf in each segment. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
There is some light blue at the centre of the palmette, and stitching in addition to the flat seam that holds the two tabs together.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. 178 on p. 49 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 49 fig. 178
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