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 rosettes in dotted frames
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Literature notes
Bands of rosettes, parallel and at right angles. One band has eight-petalled rosettes set into a beaded frame, similar to Cat. no. 508 [EA1990.515]; parallel to it is another band that treats the same motif very differently: the beaded roundel is several circles deep, but it also is delicately set, and the tendrils that fill the spandrels are fine and intricate. This band also continues in a band at right angles, and at the corner is a square with an eight-petalled flower, arranged to appear as a quatrefoil.
It is possible that the manufacture of this textile involved both resist- and mordant-stamping. The band of rosettes similar to Cat. no. 508 [EA1990.515] is saturated with dye on the reverse, while the intricately ornamented bands do not penetrate to the reverse with their patterns. The corner square is similar to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 35). -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.528
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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. 521 on p. 155 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 213, illus. vol. ii p. 155 fig. 521
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 46, 103
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bands of rosettes, parallel and at right angles. One band has eight-petalled rosettes set into a beaded frame, similar to Cat. no. 508 [EA1990.515]; parallel to it is another band that treats the same motif very differently: the beaded roundel is several circles deep, but it also is delicately set, and the tendrils that fill the spandrels are fine and intricate. This band also continues in a band at right angles, and at the corner is a square with an eight-petalled flower, arranged to appear as a quatrefoil.
It is possible that the manufacture of this textile involved both resist- and mordant-stamping. The band of rosettes similar to Cat. no. 508 [EA1990.515] is saturated with dye on the reverse, while the intricately ornamented bands do not penetrate to the reverse with their patterns. The corner square is similar to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 35).
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