Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, rosettes, and floral pattern
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace based on naskhi script, rosettes, and floral pattern
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue, hand-applied with resist, and dyed dark-blue; with light-blue stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 40 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 15 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.
EA1990.215
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Catalogue text
A border of ornate interlace with plants emerging, based on script but here without meaning; this is followed by four lines of dots on either side of a row of four different rosettes, similar to Cat. no. 198 [EA1990.206]. A large floral pattern is partly visible beyond this band.
Selvedge, some light-blue.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. 207 on p. 58 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 41, 59, & 76, vol. ii p. 58 fig. 207
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