Textile fragment with medallions and flowers, with rosettes set into linked stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and flowers, with rosettes set into linked stars
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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, possibly 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
27 x 7 cm max. (warp x weft)
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.
EA1990.201
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Catalogue text
Border band of oval medallions, with a flower inside and a surround of tendrils and leaves; in addition there are clusters of four eight-petalled rosettes set into linked star shapes, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A sawtooth border runs along the selvedge side of the band. The resist sometimes defines the design, but it also is the outline or background for the definition of patterns. The general background is blue.
Selvedge and some stitching.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. 193 on p. 54 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 54 fig. 193
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