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 interlace
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Literature notes
The pattern is related to the spiral interlocking design of Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]; however it is less organic, and close to a geometric interlacing, as in Cat. no. 294 [EA1990.303]. Although the ambiguity of reading the design is present to some degree, as in the previous fragments, the pattern is primarily defined by the red colour.
The pattern is equally precise on the surface and reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305]. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red
- Dimensions
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32 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.304
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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. 295 on p. 88 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 88 fig. 295
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), pl. VIII c
Kühnel, Ernst, Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), cat. 87, pl.50
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
The pattern is related to the spiral interlocking design of Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]; however it is less organic, and close to a geometric interlacing, as in Cat. no. 294 [EA1990.303]. Although the ambiguity of reading the design is present to some degree, as in the previous fragments, the pattern is primarily defined by the red colour.
The pattern is equally precise on the surface and reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].
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