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Textile fragment with bands of carnations, grapes, and flower-heads
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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 mordant, dyed red and purple, and applied with light-blue or green (possibly by hand)
- Dimensions
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75 x 40.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.1235
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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. 1153 on p. 349 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 349 fig. 1153
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
A series of bands of different width, the widest with red medallions against a background of interlaced tendrils. This band has a band of purple carnations on one side, and a band with red grapes on the other. There is the beginning of a wide field with separate assymetric plants, each with three flower-heads.
The designs show Persian design in the bands, and Indian Mughal treatment in the wide field. The reverse is considerably less saturated with dye than the surface.
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