Room 5 | Textiles gallery
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Galleries : 58 objects
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Niche or window cover with medallion and tabs
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand or block-printed), and dyed light-blue and dark-blue; with a hem in blue flax
- Dimensions
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29 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.190
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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. 182 on p. 51 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 60, illus. vol. ii p. 51 fig. 182 & vol. i pl. 32
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), pl. XXI a
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
Rectangular fabric with a five-lobed border of tabs; on the three sides not torn, the rectangle has a surrounding band with continuous vine and leaves, and its interior has a checkerboard pattern filled with small, lobed circles and a large medallion. The five tabs each have a different design, of geometric and stylized vegetal shapes.
Selvedge. There is blue stitching to hem the side and tabs. Light blue fills the checker-board and parts of the medallion. Some of the resist was probably applied by hand.
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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