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Textile fragment with leaves and linked flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 15th century - 1st half of the 17th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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23 x 14 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.1033
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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. 1026 on pp. 304-305 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 305-306, illus. vol. ii p. 304 fig. 1026 & vol. i pl. 9
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VIb d, illus. 45
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. 16, illus. 48
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 34, 44, 46, 86, 101, 103.
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 band of white and blue single leaves against a reddish brown ground. At right angles to the band is the fragmentary beginning of a second band. In addition there is a continuous pattern of small, linked, red, blue, and white flowers, as in Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120].
Three fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim are relevant for this textile. Two have bands with similar single leaves, although they are not blue, and one has the same plant design as the continuous pattern shows (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 1, 32, & 36). Radiocarbon analysis of the textile dates it after Quseir al-Qadim's period of occupation, though, to 1535 CE+/- 50. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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