Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted frames, linked diamond-shapes, and Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted frames, linked diamond-shapes, and Arabic inscription
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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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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 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.
EA1990.529
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Catalogue text
A band of eight-petalled rosettes set into a beaded roundel, and at a right angle to it there are two parallel bands, one with linked diamonds in a row, the other with three rows of small six-petalled rosettes each set into a white disc. Fragments of script appear on a curve, possibly part of a circlular form. In general, the patterns are outlined in white against a red ground, with some details picked out in brown.
The design is coarsely executed. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye. The fragment of script reads 'perpetuity'.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. 522 on p. 155 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 155 fig. 522
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