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 wide band with elaborate, stylized trees with symmetrical branches emerging from a central pole and a floral top, alternating with ornate floral columns with a pedestal base and vegetal capitals. Additional narrow bands, two with dots or small diamonds, one with stylized leaves alternating with quatrefoils, and one with small dots, lines, and crosses. The design is both red against a white ground, and white against a red ground.
It is difficult to determine the method of dye application; the reverse is only slightly less precise than the surface. A single stitch remains. -
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, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red; with a stitch in silk or mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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38 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.363
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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. 356 on p. 106 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 106 fig. 356
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 elaborate, stylized trees with symmetrical branches emerging from a central pole and a floral top, alternating with ornate floral columns with a pedestal base and vegetal capitals. Additional narrow bands, two with dots or small diamonds, one with stylized leaves alternating with quatrefoils, and one with small dots, lines, and crosses. The design is both red against a white ground, and white against a red ground.
It is difficult to determine the method of dye application; the reverse is only slightly less precise than the surface. A single stitch remains.
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