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 elaborate quatrefoils
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Literature notes
Two versions of elaborate quatrefoils, linked and repeated in alternation. One has overlapping petals, the other has a brown roundel at the centre and is filled with white tendrils. The pattern has brown and white outlines and is filled with red.
The reverse show less dye saturation than the surface. One side of the block used is 9 cm. long. -
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
- Dimensions
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24 x 7 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (length)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.747
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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. 740 on p. 217 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 217 fig. 740
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 versions of elaborate quatrefoils, linked and repeated in alternation. One has overlapping petals, the other has a brown roundel at the centre and is filled with white tendrils. The pattern has brown and white outlines and is filled with red.
The reverse show less dye saturation than the surface. One side of the block used is 9 cm. long.
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