Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with a flat seam in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 13 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 12 / 13 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.
EA1990.841
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of paired leaves and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. One of the paired leaves is filled with dots. The pattern is defined by white outlines, and filled with brown or red against a red background.
Selvedge. The fragment is made up from two pieces sewn together with a flat seam. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for radiocarbon results.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. 800 on p. 235 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 235 fig. 800
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