Textile fragment with medallions and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with medallions and arches
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Associated place
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Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 / 10 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.
EA1990.890
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Catalogue text
A field of red and white medallions with brown outlines against a white ground; on two sides are border bands with white and red dots, as well as red arches on a white ground.
Selvedge. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The fabric is coarsely woven, the design crudely applied. The comment on the original card was 'second half 15th-16th century'; more likely is an 18th-century date.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. 884 on p. 260 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 260, vol. ii p. 260 fig. 884
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