Textile fragment with a large circle
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with a large circle
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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 or painted with mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.6 x 17.8 cm max. (length x width)
total, with EA1990.949.a 33 x 30.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 16 / 20 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.
EA1990.949.b
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Catalogue text
A large, blue circle with a border of diamonds. At the centre is a blue rosette inside a red disc, and the blue of the circle has small, white lines shaped like the letter M. The circle is set onto a red ground which has a narrow, white band followed by a red band with interlocking vines.
[During conservation the fragment was found to be in two pieces [EA1990.949.a & EA1990.949.b].] The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for the red, but more for the blue. The irregularity of the design suggests that resist and mordant were applied by hand.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. 943 on p. 280 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 280 fig. 943
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