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 diamond-shapes, and squares with rosettes
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Literature notes
Parallel bands, one of diamond shapes with a small four-lobed ring inside, lined on either side by a running s-shape, as in Cat. no. 150 [EA1990.158]; the other with squares filled with different rosette shapes and framed by a row of dots, similar to Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. Fragmentary design of large rosettes, and at right angles to the bands a row of running s-shapes, possibly the beginning of a band as the one of diamonds above. The resist generally defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The surface shows much indigo dye in the resist areas, and the back is heavily saturated. -
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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18.5 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
- 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.
- EA1990.210
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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. 202 on pp. 56-57 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 56 fig. 202
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIIe, illus. 47
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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- 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
Parallel bands, one of diamond shapes with a small four-lobed ring inside, lined on either side by a running s-shape, as in Cat. no. 150 [EA1990.158]; the other with squares filled with different rosette shapes and framed by a row of dots, similar to Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. Fragmentary design of large rosettes, and at right angles to the bands a row of running s-shapes, possibly the beginning of a band as the one of diamonds above. The resist generally defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The surface shows much indigo dye in the resist areas, and the back is heavily saturated.
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