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Textile fragment with large medallion, squares, and rosettes
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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32 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 27 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.1012
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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. 1005 on p. 298 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 298 fig. 1005
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Narrow, red bands with irregular white circles create a grid of rectangles; these are filled with small, red and white squares and rosettes on a blue ground or, in one example, with a large medallion. Two small rectangles are filled with intricate and very fine red tendrils, set on a white ground. On three sides of the fragment is a narrow border with a running s-scroll, with red outlines on white. The outlines are angular, as though imitating ikat design.
In two places there is stitching. The fabric is very fine and closely woven, and surface and reverse cannot be distinguished.
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