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 part of a circle, petals, and tendrils
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Literature notes
The fragment of a large circle or medallion, made up of white, red, and blue concentric circles with petals and dots. The circle is surrounded by large, red tendrils set against a blue background filled with small, white tendrils. This large design field has a red and white border band with diamonds and half-medallions as a central pattern, and zigzag bands on either side. The stylistic treatment of large tendrils is similar to Cat. nos. 1035 and 1128 [EA1990.1042 and EA1990.1135].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. It seems that the resist was not block-printed, but drawn by hand. -
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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23 x 22.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1049
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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. 1042 on p. 309 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 309-310, illus. vol. ii p. 309 fig. 1042
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
The fragment of a large circle or medallion, made up of white, red, and blue concentric circles with petals and dots. The circle is surrounded by large, red tendrils set against a blue background filled with small, white tendrils. This large design field has a red and white border band with diamonds and half-medallions as a central pattern, and zigzag bands on either side. The stylistic treatment of large tendrils is similar to Cat. nos. 1035 and 1128 [EA1990.1042 and EA1990.1135].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. It seems that the resist was not block-printed, but drawn by hand.
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