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Textile fragment with elephants and horses
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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 AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist and dyed light-blue, block-printed with resist and dyed dark-blue
- Dimensions
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33 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.250
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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. 241 on p. 69 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 69 fig. 241 & vol. i pl. 39
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. fig. 20
Location
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Two bands of continuous vines, tendrils turning back into scrolls and including ornate leaves, are set between rows of figures. The upper row shows the backs of two elephants, one of which is light blue. In the lower row two fragmentary horses appear, one with a rider.
Stylistically the fragment is close to a fabric in the Textile Museum (T.M. 6.88) that is illustrated by Gittinger (1982: Fig. 20).
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