Textile fragment with arch and dotted vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arch and dotted vine
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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
23 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 16 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.
EA1990.558
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Catalogue text
A band with a continuous vine made up from two lines of dots, as in Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532]. On one side of it is an arch which has a rosette at its centre surrounded by four dots; this is set against a background of stylized flowers and plants. On the other side of the band is the beginning of a pattern of linked, stepped squares, as in Cat. no. 73 [EA1990.480]. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 551 on p. 164 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 164 fig. 551
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