Textile fragment with grid, quatrefoils, and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid, quatrefoils, and stars
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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
14 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 12 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.
EA1990.719
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Catalogue text
A grid of narrow ornamental bands, arranged to form squares, with a quatrefoil or star at the centre of each, as in Cat. no. 711 [EA1990.718]. The design is white with brown outlines, with red details and on a red ground.
Selvedge; the pattern is printed to continue beyond it. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation 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. 712 on p. 210 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 210 fig. 712
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