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Textile fragment with medallion, and rosettes set into linked stars
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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, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and dyed blue; with stitching in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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13 x 13 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 17 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.
- EA1990.197
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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. 189 on p. 53 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 53-55, 267, & 320, illus. vol. ii p. 53 fig. 189
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XXIIa, illus. 64
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. 20, illus. 52
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
A border band with a medallion with leaf terminals, and eight-petalled rosettes set into linked star shapes. A narrow sawtoothed edge runs along either side of the band, and beyond it is fragmentary evidence, in swirling tendrils, of a design area as in Cat. no. 188 [EA1990.196]. Although in general the resist defines the design, there is some ambiguity in the patterning of the band, and forms can partly be read as blue against a white background.
Selvedge. While the border band is certainly block-printed, the tendrils of the fragmentary main design field may have been drawn by hand.
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