Textile fragment with tendrils, star-shaped flowers, and oval medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, star-shaped flowers, and 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 brown and red; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
50.5 x 23.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 14 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.
EA1990.847
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Catalogue text
A continuous design field with white tendrils and small star-shaped flowers on a brown background, as well as red oval medallions with a pearl border. In addition there is a wide band with ornate arches, each filled with a single leaf hanging from the apex. Along the selvedge is a narrow, red band with a single row of white rosettes.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 842 on p. 248 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 248-249, vol. ii p. 248 fig. 842
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