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Textile fragment with oval medallions
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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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39 x 29 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 7 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.784
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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. 777 on p. 228 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 228 fig. 777
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 design field with oval medallions, each with an elaborate red rosette inside and surrounded by white tendrils against a red ground. The field is surrounded on four sides by narrow brown bands, two with white discs and arches, one with white rosettes and tendrils, and one of uncertain design. There are two additional bands, one brown with white discs and arches, the other red with white rosettes and crossed tendrils.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used in the field of medallions is 11.5 cm. x 7 cm.
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