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Textile fragment with vines and tendrils, a medallion, and rosettes
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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
- Dimensions
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14.5 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.205
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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. 197 on p. 55 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 55 fig. 197 & vol. i pl. 34
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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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Border band of a medallion containing a rosette and having a surround of tendrils and leaves, and alternating with clusters of eight-petalled rosettes set into linked stars, as in Cat. no. 189 [EA1990.197]. On either side is a narrow sawtooth band; the main design field shows curving vines and tendrils, with flower terminals and leaves.
Selvedge.
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