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 of stylized trees, two types in the shape of a bodhi leaf, with two shoots emerging from either side near the tip, a third with synmmetrically arranged branches; the trunks are filled with dots. Additional narrow bands, one with small trefoils, one with six-petalled rosettes alternating with small dots, and a third with a continuous vine and dots arranged as leaves. The wide band has the pattern red against a white ground, while the narrow bands are white against red. See also Cat. no. 353 [EA1990.360].
The design is equally precise on surface and reverse. The textile was radiocarbon-dated to 1420 CE +/- 40. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 13th century (1201 - 1300)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red
- Dimensions
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28 x 25.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.361
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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. 354 on p. 105 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 105 fig. 354 & vol. i pl. 20
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pls IV b, & XVIII a & 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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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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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 of stylized trees, two types in the shape of a bodhi leaf, with two shoots emerging from either side near the tip, a third with synmmetrically arranged branches; the trunks are filled with dots. Additional narrow bands, one with small trefoils, one with six-petalled rosettes alternating with small dots, and a third with a continuous vine and dots arranged as leaves. The wide band has the pattern red against a white ground, while the narrow bands are white against red. See also Cat. no. 353 [EA1990.360].
The design is equally precise on surface and reverse. The textile was radiocarbon-dated to 1420 CE +/- 40.
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