Newberry Collection
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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 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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17 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1120
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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. 1113 on p. 333 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 304-305 & 333-338, illus. vol. ii p. 333 fig. 1113
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.XXIVb.
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 continuous design related to the pattern of stylized plants in Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114]. Here the red plants have a halo-like radiance of white circles around their heads, and small, white tendrils and tiny rosettes appear against a red ground. The overall background is blue.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The design is similar to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant for red was alizarin with purpurin, from Rubia tinctorum L., and the colorant for blue was indigotin.
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