Textile fragment with interlace, floral pattern, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace, floral pattern, 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
19 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block (interlace square) 10.5 x 10.5 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.
EA1990.790
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Catalogue text
A square with a brown border contains interlacing arranged as a quatrefoil, white with brown outlines against a red ground; adjacent to it is a large floral pattern in red against a white ground. A narrow band of small rosettes, white on brown, separates this design from a pattern of semicircles and tendrils, white on red.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The block used for the square was 10.5 cm. x 10.5 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. 783 on pp. 229-230 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 229 fig. 783
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