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Cloth with hamsa, or geese, lotus buds, and rosettes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › South-east Asia › Indonesia › Sulawesi (find spot)Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
- 406 x 99 cm (warp x weft)
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dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.61
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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), vol. i p. 73, illus. vol. i illus. 7 & vol. i pl. 13
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia’, Ars Orientalis, 34, (2004), p. 140, illus. p. 139 fig. 4
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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