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Textile fragment with medallion, squares with quatrefoils and rosettes, and tabs
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 15th century (1401 - 1500)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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31.5 x 28 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.218
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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. 210 on p. 60 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 60 fig. 210
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), pl.XXIa
Lamm, Carl Johan, Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1937), cat. 171, pl.XXIIIc
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Part of a rectangle with tabs at the border, four of which remain; the fragment is similar to Cat. no. 182 [EA1990.190], with a large medallion at the centre of the rectangle, although the details of design are different. A border of squares surrounds the rectangle; these are filled with a sequence of quatrefoils, segmented squares, and eight-petalled rosettes. The tabs repeat two different designs: a stylized tree on a stepped base, and diagonally arranged stars with a globe hanging from the top.
Selvedge and remains of stitching around the tips of the tab shapes.
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