Textile fragment with medallions, quatrefoils, and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions, quatrefoils, 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
22 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 9.5 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.
EA1990.792
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Catalogue text
A wide band of medallions made up from tendrils and with a quatrefoil at the centre, which has five small flowers inside. The design is white on a red ground. In addition there is a band of small rosettes, white on a brown ground, and the beginning of a second red and white pattern.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 9.5 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. 785 on p. 230 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 230 fig. 785
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