Textile fragment with rosettes in circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in circles
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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 resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.483
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Catalogue text
Twelve-petalled, small rosettes in red, set into a white circle each. The background is brown.
The reverse is slightly blurred.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. 476 on p. 143 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 143, vol. ii p. 143 fig. 476
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