id: 111339 accession number: 1929.845 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.845 updated: 2022-01-04 15:09:02.213000 Fragment of a wood-block print on linen, 1200s - 1300s. Egypt, Mamluk period, 1200s-1300s. Block printing on linen tabby ground; overall: 15.3 x 17.2 cm (6 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.845 title: Fragment of a wood-block print on linen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s - 1300s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Mamluk period, 1200s-1300s technique: block printing on linen tabby ground department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 15.3 x 17.2 cm (6 x 6 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Techniques of Textile Printing opening date: 1948-10-11T04:00:00 Techniques of Textile Printing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 11, 1948-May 29, 1949). title: Design in Printed Textiles opening date: 1961-04-04T04:00:00 Design in Printed Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 4-September 3, 1961). title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00 Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Indian technique of patterning a textile by printing with wooden blocks came to the Mamluk world as a result of trade with India. At Fustat, outside of Cairo, numerous fragments of Indian and Mamluk printed textiles have been found. Fish, repeated to form the entire design of this textile, were an indigenous Egyptian motif. The break in the bodies of two of the fish reveals that two blocks were used to print each fish. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pfister, Rudolph. Les toiles imprimees de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris, 1938), p. 75, pl. XXIXc. page number: url: CMA Handbook (1978) p. 270; (1991) p. 48. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 270 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n290 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.845/1929.845_full.tif