Textile fragment with lobed cartouches and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed cartouches and rosettes
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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
17.5 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.760
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Catalogue text
Linked lobed cartouches and rosettes. The rosettes are brown with white tendrils and a red dot at the centre, the cartouches are red with white plant motifs inside. The background is red, and all outlines are brown and white.
The reverse shows 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. 753 on p. 221 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 221 fig. 753
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