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 tendrils, dotted frames, and rosettes
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Literature notes
A wide band filled with tendrils, with parts of the beaded frames of medallions visible, and including half of an ornate flower-head. The pattern is white on a red ground. Adjacent to it is a narrow band with crossed tendrils and small rosettes, white on a brown ground. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 611 [EA1990.618].
The textile has been folded into a rectangle, one long side of which is now torn. There are remains of yellow stitching along one edge. Like the two previous textiles, this fragment almost certainly was part of the same textile as Cat. no. 611 [EA1990.618]. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. -
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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in yellow thread, possibly silk
- Dimensions
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17 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.621
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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. 614 on p. 181 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 180, illus. vol. ii p. 181 fig. 614
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 wide band filled with tendrils, with parts of the beaded frames of medallions visible, and including half of an ornate flower-head. The pattern is white on a red ground. Adjacent to it is a narrow band with crossed tendrils and small rosettes, white on a brown ground. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 611 [EA1990.618].
The textile has been folded into a rectangle, one long side of which is now torn. There are remains of yellow stitching along one edge. Like the two previous textiles, this fragment almost certainly was part of the same textile as Cat. no. 611 [EA1990.618]. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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