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 arches, columns, and flower-heads
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Literature notes
A wide band of arches supported by columns which alternate between linked ovals and parallel lines filling the column shafts. A palmette is set into each arch, supported by a line of small rosettes. A second band with a row of flower-heads, represented in profile, is flanked by two narrow bands, each with a continuous vine and stylized leaves. The pattern is white on a red ground, with some purple highlights.
Stitches. The resist may have been put on by hand; there are some lines on the reverse, where the resist has cracked. -
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, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and mordant-dyed red and purple; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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33.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 27 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.627
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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. 620 on pp. 182-183 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 182 fig. 620
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 of arches supported by columns which alternate between linked ovals and parallel lines filling the column shafts. A palmette is set into each arch, supported by a line of small rosettes. A second band with a row of flower-heads, represented in profile, is flanked by two narrow bands, each with a continuous vine and stylized leaves. The pattern is white on a red ground, with some purple highlights.
Stitches. The resist may have been put on by hand; there are some lines on the reverse, where the resist has cracked.
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