Textile fragment with large medallion and squares with crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large medallion and squares with 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, applied with resist (probably by hand), 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
39 x 24.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 21 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.
EA1990.191
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Catalogue text
Large medallion with an eight-petalled flower inside, concentric circles, dots, and a rosette at the centre; this is surrounded by squares with crosses, bands of lines, and tear-drop shapes. Swirling plants and the beginning of a roundel are also visible.
The resist was probably not block-printed, but applied by hand.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. 183 on p. 51 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 52, vol. ii p. 51 fig. 183
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