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Textile fragment with large medallions, rosettes, and snowflakes
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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
- Dimensions
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24 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 x 12.5 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.785
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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. 778 on p. 228 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 228 fig. 778
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
Two large medallions, one brown and red, the other only red; both have a rosette at the centre. The background is white. There also is a border with a white snowflake design on brown.
The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye than the surface. The fragment shows well how the blocks were applied: the two medallions both have the identical red design stamped, but one has an additional block applied for the brown details. The size of the block used was 12.5 cm. x 12.5 cm.
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