Textile fragment with rosettes and inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and inscription
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 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.
EA1990.334
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Catalogue text
Bands of different width, all with a beaded border; eight-petalled rosettes, red against light and set in a circle of dots, two types of smaller rosettes and spirals in a wider band and loosely arranged, a band of script, and a cable pattern at right angles to the other bands.
The reverse is almost completely saturated with dye. The inscription reads 'perpetuity and good luck. Glory and...'; it derives from Ayyubid or early Mamluk script (c. 1200-1260). The textile may therefore have a mid-13th-century date.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. 326 on p. 97 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 97 fig. 326
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