Textile fragment with oval medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with oval 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; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
39 x 29 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 7 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.
EA1990.784
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Catalogue text
A large design field with oval medallions, each with an elaborate red rosette inside and surrounded by white tendrils against a red ground. The field is surrounded on four sides by narrow brown bands, two with white discs and arches, one with white rosettes and tendrils, and one of uncertain design. There are two additional bands, one brown with white discs and arches, the other red with white rosettes and crossed tendrils.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used in the field of medallions is 11.5 cm. x 7 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. 777 on p. 228 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 228 fig. 777
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