Room 5 | Textiles gallery
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Tab with stylized flowering plant, rosette, and vine
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with a hem in blue and white flax, and stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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17.5 x 11 cm (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.177
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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. 169 on p. 47 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 47 fig. 169
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XXII c, illus. 64
Location
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- 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.
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A tab with a continuous vine as a surround, and squares containing a rosette in the lower corners; a flowering plant inside. The plant's central rosette has the same shape as Cat. no. 164 [EA1990.172], and scroll and flower at the top also are similar. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Delicate stitching around the edge shapes a finely folded hem. On one side there is coarse stitching as well.
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.
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