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Textile fragment with oval medallions, tendrils, and linked rosettes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 15th century - 1st half of the 16th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 14 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 22 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.672
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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. 665 on pp. 196-197 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 196 fig. 665 & vol. i pl. 35
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XXII a, illus. 64
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 36, illus. 68
Location
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- currently in research collection
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