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 part of a large medallion with a grid, dots, and a vine
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Literature notes
Fragment of a large medallion, with a centre of diagonal lines arranged as a grid of squares containing a dot, and small quatrefoils at the intersection of lines. The medallion has a surround of two narrow bands, one with a continuous vine with leaves attached, the other solid blue and lined with small, single hooks.The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some highlights of light blue have been added. The resist was probably not block-printed, but applied by hand. -
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, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.194
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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. 186 on p. 52 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 52-53, illus. vol. ii p. 52 fig. 186
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), illus. 37
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
Fragment of a large medallion, with a centre of diagonal lines arranged as a grid of squares containing a dot, and small quatrefoils at the intersection of lines. The medallion has a surround of two narrow bands, one with a continuous vine with leaves attached, the other solid blue and lined with small, single hooks.The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some highlights of light blue have been added. The resist was probably not block-printed, but applied by hand.
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