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Tab with an ornate plant, tendrils, leaves, and flower-heads
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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 remains of a hem and probably a seam in flax
- Dimensions
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11.5 x 16.5 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.181
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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. 173 on p. 48 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 319, illus. vol. ii p. 48 fig. 173
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 filled with an ornate, symmetrical plant, with tendrils, leaves, and flower heads seen in side-view. The centres of flowers are mostly a light blue. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge at the top. Remains of stitching that follows the outline of the tab indicates that there was a hem, and probably a seam to fasten the tab to a larger textile. One side retains the hem.
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