Textile fragment with ornate quatrefoil or medallion
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with ornate quatrefoil or medallion
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-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
16 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 21 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.
EA1990.877
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Catalogue text
A fragment of an ornate quatrefoil or medallion, white and defined by brown outlines against a dark red ground.
There is some evidence of fine lines on the reverse, possibly where the resist had cracked.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. 871 on p. 256 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 256 fig. 871
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