Textile fragment with rosettes, stepped squares, and Maltese crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, stepped squares, and Maltese crosses
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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, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 18 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.
EA1990.522
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Catalogue text
A band of various rosettes, as in Cat. no. 511 [EA1990.518]; on one side of it a pattern of stepped squares linked with Maltese crosses, as in Cat. no. 473 [EA1990.480], on the other side are separate, swirling leaves and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 41 [EA1990.49]. The design is defined by the resist against a red or brown background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation 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. 515 on p. 153 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 161, vol. ii p. 153 fig. 515
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