Textile fragment with interlocking circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking 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 mordant, and 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
20.5 x 30.5 cm (warp x weft)
13 / 17 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.
EA1990.624
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Catalogue text
A wide band of interlocking circles, further connected by interlacing of stylized ?tendrils; the pattern is outlined in brown and has a red background. A narrow band of discs or stylized flowers is set next to it, as in Cat. no. 609 [EA1990.616].
Selvedge at right angle to the bands. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 617 on p. 182 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 202 & 231-232, vol. ii p. 182 fig. 617
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