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Textile fragment with stylized plants
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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, hand-applied with resist and mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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35 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- 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.
- EA1990.1123
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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. 1116 on p. 335 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 335 fig. 1116 & vol. i pl. 10
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VI d, illus. 45
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 34 & 86
Lamm, Carl Johan, Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1937), cat. 171, pl. XXIV b
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of plants related to the pattern in Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114]. As in Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120], the stylized plants have a surround of white lines. Here the plants are red, white, and blue against a red background. This is filled with white tendrils and small bunches of fruit.
Stitching along the selvedge. For both red and blue, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence of block repetition. A fragment with identical design was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990). The radiocarbon test on this textile had a result of 1450 CE+/- 50.
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