Textile fragment with birds and rosette with heart-shaped petals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with birds and rosette with heart-shaped petals
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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, and applied with dark-grey; with stitching in white cotton and blue thread, possibly flax
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.446
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Catalogue text
A rosette with six heart-shaped petals, as well as birds perched on a ?cross. The pattern is dark grey against a white background.
The reverse is less saturated by 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. 439 on p. 129 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 129 fig. 439
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