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Textile fragment with flowering trees
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- late 13th century - 14th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, probably hand-painted with mordant and dyed brown, and resist- and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in white flax and blue thread, possibly flax
- Dimensions
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28.2 x 15.4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.823.a
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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. 821 on p. 242 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 242, illus. vol. ii p. 242 fig. 821 & vol. i pl. 28
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 58, pl. XIV a
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Large, stylized, flowering trees, white with brown outlines and details, surrounded by white tendrils with bunches of fruit. The background is red.
White and blue stitching. The design is related to Cat. nos. 1122 [EA1990.1129] and 1132 [EA1990.1139].
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