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 medallions and tendrils
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Literature notes
Medallions, red with white outlines for an oval, lobed frame and four tendrils inside; brown squares with white details, of a hatched border and four stylized, short tendrils. The red background is filled entirely with stylized tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The block size used was 13 cm. x 7.5 cm. Some overlapping of the brown squares indicates that all red parts were stamped and dyed first, then the brown design was stamped and dyed. -
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, dyed red, and then dyed brown
- Dimensions
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20 x 15.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
block 13 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.743
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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. 736 on p. 216 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 216 fig. 736
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
Medallions, red with white outlines for an oval, lobed frame and four tendrils inside; brown squares with white details, of a hatched border and four stylized, short tendrils. The red background is filled entirely with stylized tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The block size used was 13 cm. x 7.5 cm. Some overlapping of the brown squares indicates that all red parts were stamped and dyed first, then the brown design was stamped and dyed.
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