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Textile fragment with semicircle, complex rosette, and circle fragment with script
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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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29.5 x 22.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.597
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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. 590 on p. 174 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 174 fig. 590
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 narrow border band following the selvedge is filled with small rosettes and tendrils, and possibly with script, which is given a brown outline. A large pattern field follows, including a semi-circle filled with geometric design, a complex rosette, and the fragment of a circle containing further script. The pattern is generally white against a red ground, but outlines are brown.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. None of the script can be read.
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