Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
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Literature notes
S-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes without central dots, and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 1 [EA1990.9]. Additional (?)border design of four parallel bands, showing (a) a blue-white zigzag, (b,d) a continuous vine with separate leaves, and (c) a row of simple crosses and dots. While the reserve defines the design generally against a blue background, the crosses and dots of (c) are blue against a light ground.
Overlapping of block edges in band design and continuous pattern. In the latter the width of the block is 7 cm. -
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, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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22 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block (main field) 7 cm estimated (width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.24
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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. 16 on pp. 4-5 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 57, illus. vol. ii p. 4 fig. 16
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IXb, illus. 58
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. 5, illus. 37
Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics, Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, 1 (Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1971), cat. Pl.5b, illus. 13
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
S-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes without central dots, and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 1 [EA1990.9]. Additional (?)border design of four parallel bands, showing (a) a blue-white zigzag, (b,d) a continuous vine with separate leaves, and (c) a row of simple crosses and dots. While the reserve defines the design generally against a blue background, the crosses and dots of (c) are blue against a light ground.
Overlapping of block edges in band design and continuous pattern. In the latter the width of the block is 7 cm.
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