Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
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Literature notes
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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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500)
- Material and technique
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with an open seam in cotton
- Dimensions
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39.5 x 22.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (length)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.801
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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. 794 on p. 233 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 92, 233-236, & 236, illus. vol. ii p. 233 fig. 794
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IVa, c, illus. 37
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 30, illus. 62
Bérinstain, Valérie, ‘Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt’, Marg, 40/3, (1989), cat. fig. 4, illus. 18
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:171-2; III:Pl.283.
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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
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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