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Textile fragment with pointed ovals
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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, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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29 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 8.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.754
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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. 747 on pp. 219-220 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 219, illus. vol. ii p. 219 fig. 747
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 continuous design of pointed ovals, each with a beaded surround and filled with two different types of tendrils, white against brown, identical to Cat. no. 746 [EA1990.753]. In addition there are narrow bands of small arches and a continuous vine, white on brown, white parallel poles against red, and a red band with brown medallions filled with white tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 8.5 cm. As design and technical details are similar to the previous fragment [EA1990.753], both textiles may have been part of the same fabric.
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