Newberry Collection
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Textile fragment with inscription, lines, stylized palmettes, and possibly trees
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
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possibly early 12th century (1101-1130)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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24.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.150
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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. 142 on p. 38 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 39, illus. vol. ii p. 38 fig. 142
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 69, pl.XXVIa
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
Band of inscription which repeats itself after 19 cm., four white lines on either side of the band, and a row of stylized ?trees and palmettes. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The inscription reads, in order of printing: 'and perpetuity to its owner...Blessing and...'. Pfister discusses a similar fragment which has the same inscription. The type of script derives from a 11th- or early 12th-century Fatimid source. This may suggest an early 12th-century date for the textile.
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