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Textile fragment with floral medallion and Persian-style script

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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

    A very large floral medallion arranged as a quatrefoil and filled with small flowers and four tear-drop leaves; four additional smaller rosettes surround it. At the selvedge is a band with an inscription, as in Cat. no. 680 [EA1990.687]. All designs have white outlines further defined by fine brown lines against a red ground.

    Selvedge and some black stitching, probably recently done to hold the fragment together. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The script is derived from Persian. 18th century?

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