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Textile fragment with flowers, quatrefoils, and rosettes
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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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30 x 12.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 cm estimated (length)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.105
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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. 97 on p. 26 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 26-27, illus. vol. ii p. 26 fig. 97 & vol. i pl. 26
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia’, Ars Orientalis, 34, (2004), p. 140, illus. p. 140 fig. 5
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
Four-petalled flowers and single dots form a grid of squares, each containing either a quatrefoil, or an eight-petalled rosette with a dot at the centre. The arrangement is comparable to Cat. no. 90 [EA1990.98]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge. Some overlapping of design identifies the length of one block side as 14 cm.
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