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Tab with stylized plant
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed dark-blue; with remains of stitching in white and blue flax
- Dimensions
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16 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block 15 x 10 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1078
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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. 1071 on pp. 318-319 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 48 & 319, illus. vol. ii p. 318 fig. 1071
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XXII d, 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. 35, illus. 67
Location
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- currently in research collection
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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 tab filled with a stylized, symmetrical plant. The plant is white on a red ground, with some blue details, and the background to the tab is deep blue.
Selvedge. There are the remains of white and blue stitching around the outline of the tab. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation for the red, and considerably more for the blue. The size of the block used was 15 cm. x 10 cm.
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