Textile fragment with carnations, rosettes, and linked quatrefoils
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Title
Textile fragment with carnations, rosettes, and linked quatrefoils
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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 red; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.405
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Catalogue text
The design can be read as either red on white, or white on red, and the images change accordingly. Red carnations with white rosettes at the centre are framed by linked quatrefoils with a red flower at the centre of each.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than 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. 398 on p. 118 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 118 fig. 398
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