Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, rosettes, and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, rosettes, and diamond-shapes
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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
17.5 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.538
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Catalogue text
Bands arranged diagonally and at right angles, with vines made up from two parallel lines of dots and stylized leaves; in addition there is a row of rosettes and diamond shapes. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.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. 531 on p. 158 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 158 & 164, vol. ii p. 158 fig. 531
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