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Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils

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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

    A continuous pattern of paired leaves and quatrefoils; one of the paired leaves is filled with white dots. All outlines are white, some details are brown, and the background is red. In addition there is a border band of paired leaves alternating with rosettes, with white outlines on a brown ground.

    The border band with the selvedge is sewn on with an open seam. The length of one block side was 9 cm. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for radiocarbon results.

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