Textile fragment with rosettes, circles, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, circles, and quatrefoils
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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
16.5 x 14.5 cm (warp x weft)
11 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 10 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.
EA1990.695
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Catalogue text
A continuous design with elaborate rosettes, discs, and quatrefoils, as well as additional small rosettes with eight petals and small discs. All patterns are white and outlined in brown, with background and details in red.
Selvedge. The size of the block used was 10 cm. x 10 cm. The reverse shows very little dye saturation.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. 688 on p. 203 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 203 fig. 688
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