Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils, rosettes, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils, rosettes, and flower-heads
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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 remains of stitching in silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 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.
EA1990.836
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Catalogue text
Thin tendrils are arranged in a geometric interlace, with rosettes and large flower-heads at the intersections. The design is white with brown outlines against a red ground.
Remains of fine stitching along one side. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 834 on p. 245 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 245 fig. 834
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