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Textile fragment, possibly with squares and stylized animals
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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17 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 10 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.147
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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. 139 on p. 37 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 37 fig. 139
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.XXVe, XXXVa, illus. 67
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. 17, illus. 49
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 59, 66, 116.
Eastwood, Gillian, ‘Textiles’, Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson, eds, Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report, American Research Center in Egypt Reports, 7 (Malibu: Undena, 1982), cat. 292, fig. 20
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
Fragment of a large square with undefined shapes inside: the pattern is a crude version of Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146]. An additional band might be an attempt of a rosette border, as in Cat. no. 140 [EA1990.148]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The design is a large version of Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. Because of its affinity to Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146], it may also represent a tree-of-life with flanking animals. The pattern probably was drawn by hand. A fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim is identical, even to the presence of the border. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 69.)
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