Textile fragment with stylized plants linked to form medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants linked to form medallions
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, joined with a seam in cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
60 x 31.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.375
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Catalogue text
Two wide border bands with highly stylized plant forms linked into medallion shapes. A narrow band with a continuous vine separates the border from the beginning of a large design field. The pattern is generally red on a white ground.
A seam across the width of the fragment was sewn prior to printing. The reverse shows the same dye saturation as the surface.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. 373 on p. 111 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 111 fig. 373
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