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 ornate, dotted, and large rosettes
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Literature notes
Band printed diagonally, at an angle to the selvedge, of four different ornate rosettes which are repeated, two as quatrefoils, and two eight-petalled. The rosettes are set into a vine, represented by dots, and four rows of dots are on either side. Towards the selvedge is a continuous design of six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, and with a dot at the centre; on the other side of the band is a similar field, but with large, twelve-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre. Blue background.
One of the rosettes has light blue petals. There are remains of stitching. Some overlapping of pattern defines the block used for the band as measuring 18 cm. x 9.5 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; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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28 x 13.5 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block (central band) 18 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- 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.
- EA1990.206
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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. 198 on pp. 55-56 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 59, illus. vol. ii p. 55 fig. 198 & vol. i pl. 33
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.VIIIe, XXVId, illus. 49,71
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. 18, illus. 50
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Band printed diagonally, at an angle to the selvedge, of four different ornate rosettes which are repeated, two as quatrefoils, and two eight-petalled. The rosettes are set into a vine, represented by dots, and four rows of dots are on either side. Towards the selvedge is a continuous design of six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, and with a dot at the centre; on the other side of the band is a similar field, but with large, twelve-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre. Blue background.
One of the rosettes has light blue petals. There are remains of stitching. Some overlapping of pattern defines the block used for the band as measuring 18 cm. x 9.5 cm.
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