Textile fragment with linked medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked medallions
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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
22 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 8.5 x 8.5 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.
EA1990.767
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Catalogue text
Large brown tendrils with white outlines and a single line of dots inside, all linked to form red medallions, as in Cat. no. 759 [EA1990.766]. The medallions are filled with tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 8.5 cm. x 8.5 cm. It is possible that this fragment and the previous one [EA1990.766] were part of the same fabric.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. 760 on p. 223 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 223, vol. ii p. 223 fig. 760
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