Textile fragment with medallion, flower, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallion, flower, and tendrils
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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
7.5 x 9 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 24 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.
EA1990.200
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Catalogue text
A band with a medallion, having a flower at the centre and tendrils at the narrow points of the oval, similar to Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A sawtooth edge appears on one side. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge, the design moves at a right angle to it.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. 192 on p. 54 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 54 fig. 192
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