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Associated place

Africa › Egypt (find spot)

Africa › Egypt › Cairo › Cairo › Fustat (possible find spot)

Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)

Date

2nd half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 15th century

Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue

Dimensions

17 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)

Material index

processed material › textile › cotton,

organic › vegetal › fibre › cotton

Technique index

assembled › woven › plain woven,

woven › plain woven,

printed › relief print,

coloured › dyed › resist dyed,

dyed › resist dyed

Object type index

textile

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.

Accession no.

EA1990.92
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. 84 on p. 23 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 23 fig. 84

Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VIII b, illus. 49

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. 30, illus. 62

Location

- currently in research collection

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