Textile fragment with rosettes and stylized plants

Title

Textile fragment with rosettes and stylized plants
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

16 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.241

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Catalogue text

Stylized plants appear in side-view, possibly as part of a large roundel; a curving border with two rows of dots and a row of small tear-drop shapes. Twelve-petalled rosettes are set between this border and a second dividing band of beaded dots. 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)

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