Textile fragment with arch and plant-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arch and plant-shapes
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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 light-blue and dark-blue; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 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.
EA1990.229
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Catalogue text
Arch with a beaded surround and plant shapes, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219], but here printed to create a corner, so that the smaller interior arches merge at a right angle. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
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. 221 on pp. 63-64 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 63 fig. 221
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