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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; with remains of stitching in blue flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 9.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.106
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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. 98 on p. 26 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 26 fig. 98
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Four-petalled flowers and single dots create a grid of squares, which are filled with either a rosette or a quatrefoil, similar to Cat. no. 97 [EA1990.105]. The rosette, however, has wedge-shaped petals and no dot in the centre. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge, and remains of blue stitching on all four sides. Overlapping of the pattern at the block edge. A very small fragment remains at the side opposite the selvedge, probably part of a fabric that was once sewn on at this point.
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