Textile fragment with interlocking circles, flower-heads, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking circles, flower-heads, and tendrils
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
blocks 13 x 13 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.693
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Catalogue text
Two blocks of interlocking circles, as in Cat. no. 685 [EA1990.692], alternating with blocks of ornate floral pattern, showing flower-heads in profile and densely set tendrils. The interlocking circles are white with brown dots, on a red ground, while the floral pattern is mostly red against a white ground, although there is some ambiguity of how to read the design. The beginning of a brown band appears at the border of the fragment.
The size of the blocks used is 13 cm. x 13 cm.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. 686 on p. 202 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 202 fig. 686
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