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Textile fragment with medallion, and a vine with leaves and flowers
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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
- Dimensions
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5.5 x 15.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 20 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.
- EA1990.198
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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. 190 on p. 53 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 53 fig. 190
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 and leaf terminals, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A narrow zig-zag band is on either side. In addition, a fragmentary motif of a vine with leaves and flowers, possibly the beginning of the main field. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. As in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197], the border was block-printed, but the main field may have been drawn by hand.
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