Newberry Collection
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Textile fragment with interlocking medallions
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 11th century (1001 - 1100)
- Material and technique
- cotton, probably block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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23 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 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,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.320
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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. 311 on p. 92 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 163, illus. vol. ii p. 92 fig. 311 & vol. i pl. 19
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XXV a, illus. 69
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. 43 & 101
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
Interlocking medallion shapes with beaded borders and filled with tendrils that have flower-heads. The design is closely related to the continuous lotus vine of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is red.
The design was probably resist-stamped, as the outlines are slightly less clearly defined on the reverse. Similar to the more coarsely printed, blue design of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. This similarity links the pattern also with two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28). The fragment was given a C-14 date of 1060 CE +/- 40. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.
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