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 stylized trees
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Literature notes
A band of with two versions of stylized trees; one has the shape of a single bodhi tree leaf, with two additional branches emerging on either side of the tip, the other has seven branches in the shape of serrated leaves and an offshoot emerging on either side of the base. The trunks of both trees are filled with beaded dots. The design is red against a white background. Adjacent is a narrow band of alternating six-petalled rosettes and small circles, white against a red background.
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Details
- 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, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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30.5 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.360
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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. 353 on p. 105 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 105-106, illus. vol. ii p. 105 fig. 353
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pls IV b, & XVIIIa & b, illus. 38-39 & 60
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. 41, illus. 73
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A band of with two versions of stylized trees; one has the shape of a single bodhi tree leaf, with two additional branches emerging on either side of the tip, the other has seven branches in the shape of serrated leaves and an offshoot emerging on either side of the base. The trunks of both trees are filled with beaded dots. The design is red against a white background. Adjacent is a narrow band of alternating six-petalled rosettes and small circles, white against a red background.
The pattern is very slightly blurred on the reverse.
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