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 rings and quatrefoils
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Literature notes
White rings and quatrefoils, linked to create a continuous pattern. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. Possibly there is an intentional differentiation between light and dark blue areas, which would set every second row of rings at the centre of a dark blue area, with four thin petals attached. This quadripartite division could be seen as the simplest version of a pattern that finds its elaboration in the four-petalled rondels with ambiguous reading, as in Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099]. -
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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, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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16 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.116
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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. 108 on p. 29 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 139, illus. vol. ii p. 29 fig. 108
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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
White rings and quatrefoils, linked to create a continuous pattern. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. Possibly there is an intentional differentiation between light and dark blue areas, which would set every second row of rings at the centre of a dark blue area, with four thin petals attached. This quadripartite division could be seen as the simplest version of a pattern that finds its elaboration in the four-petalled rondels with ambiguous reading, as in Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099].
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