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Textile fragment with medallions and flowers, with 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, and dyed blue; with stitching, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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27 x 7 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.201
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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. 193 on p. 54 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 54 fig. 193
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
Border band of oval medallions, with a flower inside and a surround of tendrils and leaves; in addition there are clusters of four eight-petalled rosettes set into linked star shapes, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. A sawtooth border runs along the selvedge side of the band. The resist sometimes defines the design, but it also is the outline or background for the definition of patterns. The general background is blue.
Selvedge and some stitching.
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