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Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 25.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.297
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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. 288 on p. 86 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 86-88 & 149-150, illus. vol. ii p. 86 fig. 288
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), pl. VIII c
Kühnel, Ernst, Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), cat. 87, pl.50
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
Interlocking, rotating floral design; the focus of the pattern can be shifted, as can the definition of form through colour, i.e. the design can be read as either red on a white background, or white on red.
The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].
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