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Textile fragment with elaborate semi-rosette and petals
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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 mordant and dyed brown; probably applied with resist, and dyed red; dyed blue, possibly directly onto the fabric; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.973
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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. 967 on pp. 287-288 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 280, illus. vol. ii p. 287 fig. 967 & vol. i pl. 31
Barnes, Ruth, Emma Dick, and Jon Thompson, Textiles Through the Ages (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2002), cat. p. 14, illus. p. 14
Location
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A large elaborate semi-rosette with two layers of flower-filled petals, red and blue with brown outlines. Next to it is a blue band with paired leaves alternating with flower heads, as in Cat. nos. 965 and 966 [EA1990.971 and EA1990.972]. This is followed by a red band with a curving vine stem and separate bunches of leaves. The design is white with brown outlines, and the leaves have some blue details.
A straight line of stitching goes through part of the fragment.
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