Textile fragment with medallions and small crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and small 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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed brown; with a flat seam in flax, and a dart, 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
40 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 12 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.
EA1990.288
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Catalogue text
Small medallions with cross shapes attached, and set into a grid made up of wavey shapes and small crosses at the intersection of the grid lines. The design is brown, the background white.
A flat seam along the length of the fragment; in addition there is a dart at one end. The dye has not saturated the reverse.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. 279 on p. 83 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 83 fig. 279
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