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Textile fragment with part of a large medallion with a grid, dots, and a vine

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Fragment of a large medallion, with a centre of diagonal lines arranged as a grid of squares containing a dot, and small quatrefoils at the intersection of lines. The medallion has a surround of two narrow bands, one with a continuous vine with leaves attached, the other solid blue and lined with small, single hooks.The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

    Some highlights of light blue have been added. The resist was probably not block-printed, but applied by hand.

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