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Textile fragment with dotted square and rosette
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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 with mordant, dyed brown, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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13.5 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.729
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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. 722 on p. 213 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 213 fig. 722
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 46, 103
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 large square with a beaded edge, white on brown, and a red quatrefoil in the centre. The quatrefoil is similar to one in Cat. no. 521 [EA1990.528]. The background to the square is red.
The reverse shows only partial dye penetration for the brown, while there are additional traces of red. A fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim has a square with a similar, although much simpler, quatrefoil, as well as the fragmentary beginning of two regular flowers, possibly set into squares (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 35).
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