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Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
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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 resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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37.5 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 16 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.27
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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. 19 on p. 5 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 5 fig. 19
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.XIVb, XVb, illus. 58,59
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. 4, illus. 36
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
Reversed s-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes, and four-petalled flowers, arranged as in Cat. no. 3 [EA1990.11]. One s-shape is not reversed. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
As one s-shape is not reversed, its repetition makes it possible to identify the block size as 16 cm. x 9.5 cm.
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