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Textile fragment with lotus scroll
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th century - 1st half of the 11th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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18 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.556
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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. 549 on p. 163 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 163 fig. 549
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 band with a continuous vine scroll, made up from two solid lines filled with a single row of dots. Tendrils emerge from the stem, turn back and end with flower-heads seen in side-view. Similar, but smaller, flowers also emerge from the stem. A line of circles with dots inside is on one side of the band. The pattern is white against a red or brown ground.
There is very little difference between the surface and reverse, regarding precision of design and dye saturation. The design is related to the lotus vine pattern of Cat. nos. 238 and 311 [EA1990.247 and EA1990.320] and ultimately can be traced to Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28). Here we see a particularly refined and precisely executed version of a lotus scroll.
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