Room 5 | Textiles gallery
Explore the beauty and variety of Eastern Art objects on display in the Textiles gallery.
Galleries : 58 objects
Show search help
- Reference URL
Actions
Textile fragment with rosettes, arches, stylized trees or flowers, and leaves
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
-
28 x 19.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
-
assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.161
-
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. 153 on p. 42 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. pp. 65-66, illus. vol. ii p. 42 fig. 153 & vol. i pl. 3
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Galleries
Publications online
-
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Two wide bands of rosettes and lines of dots, arranged at right angles to each other; the rosettes are very ornate and vary in composition. In addition there are two narrow bands of dots, as well as a row of arches filled with stylized plants, each arch separated by a tree or column. A third wide band has a row of stylized trees or flowers alternating with symmetrical leaf shapes supported by a beaded stem. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The centres of rosettes and trees are light blue. There is a selvedge and the remains of some stitching. Also published in Barnes 1992b: 11.
Notice
Objects may have since been removed or replaced from a gallery. Click into an individual object record to confirm whether or not an object is currently on display. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis, so contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular Eastern Art object.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum