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Textile fragment with linked cartouches and 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 remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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18 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block 20 x 20 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.740
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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. 733 on p. 215 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 215 fig. 733
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 types of linked cartouches, one version white with brown dots and a small brown medallion at the centre, the other red with two stylized white tendrils, each with a heart shape attached, as well as a brown central medallion. Both versions share the undulating border and small cartouches that link the medallions. The shapes complement each other, as in tile work.
Remains of stitching. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 8.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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