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Textile fragment with swirling leaves
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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 mordant-dyed brown
- Dimensions
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15.5 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.296
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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. 287 on p. 86 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 86 fig. 287
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. PL.XVa, illus. 59
Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics, Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, 1 (Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1971), cat. pl .4 a, illus. 12
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
Separate leaves, some arranged as swirling floral shapes, as in Cat. no. 41 [EA1990.49]. The leaves are light against a brown background.
The pattern is blurred on the reverse. The width of the block was 9 cm.
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