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 plants, half-medallions, and bands of rosettes
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Literature notes
A wide band with plants emerging from stylized mounds that take the form of half-medallions: a single plant with a thin stem and a flower with long petals, seen in profile, and two plants emerging from one base; similar to Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], but the two connected plants are symmetrical here. Thepattern is white on a red ground. Two narrow bands with a row of small rosettes, white on a brown ground, and flanked by a line of brown dots on each side; one of these bands is at right angles to the wide band.
The block used measured 12 cm. x 7 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. -
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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34 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 7 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.603
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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. 596 on p. 176 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 176, illus. vol. ii p. 176 fig. 596
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 60, pl.XVIIIc
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 wide band with plants emerging from stylized mounds that take the form of half-medallions: a single plant with a thin stem and a flower with long petals, seen in profile, and two plants emerging from one base; similar to Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], but the two connected plants are symmetrical here. Thepattern is white on a red ground. Two narrow bands with a row of small rosettes, white on a brown ground, and flanked by a line of brown dots on each side; one of these bands is at right angles to the wide band.
The block used measured 12 cm. x 7 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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