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 stylized vine, rosettes, and diamond-shapes
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Literature notes
Two pieces sewn together; the larger, red one with diagonally printed bands at right angles to each other, with a stylized vine made up from dots, and another band with rosettes and diamonds, identical to Cat. no. 531 [EA1990.538]. The smaller fragment is dyed blue, with arches probably representing large petals, and the same beaded, stylized vine as in the red fragment; the same combination of designs appears in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. The patterns are white against a red or blue background.
The two pieces are sewn back to back, with stitching all around the blue fragment. The purpose of the sewing is not clear. The design is slightly blurred on the reverse of the red fragment, while the reverse of the blue piece is saturated with dye. -
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- 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
- two pieces of cotton, the larger one block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown, the other block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with stitching, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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20 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 21 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.539
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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. 532 on p. 158 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 158 fig. 532
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 49, pl.VIIIb
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
Two pieces sewn together; the larger, red one with diagonally printed bands at right angles to each other, with a stylized vine made up from dots, and another band with rosettes and diamonds, identical to Cat. no. 531 [EA1990.538]. The smaller fragment is dyed blue, with arches probably representing large petals, and the same beaded, stylized vine as in the red fragment; the same combination of designs appears in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. The patterns are white against a red or blue background.
The two pieces are sewn back to back, with stitching all around the blue fragment. The purpose of the sewing is not clear. The design is slightly blurred on the reverse of the red fragment, while the reverse of the blue piece is saturated with dye.
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