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 rosettes and small trefoils
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Literature notes
Bands, both diagonal and at right angles, of four types of rosettes and small trefoils set in between, with two lines down one side and three the other; additional design fields have stylized plants and large rosettes. The design is white against a red background.
Remains of stitching. The design is slightly blurred on the reverse. -
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, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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.
- EA1990.332
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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. 324 on p. 96 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 152, illus. vol. ii p. 96 fig. 324
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. 38,39, illus. 70,71
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
Bands, both diagonal and at right angles, of four types of rosettes and small trefoils set in between, with two lines down one side and three the other; additional design fields have stylized plants and large rosettes. The design is white against a red background.
Remains of stitching. The design is slightly blurred on the reverse.
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