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Textile fragment with leaves and dotted vine
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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, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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16 x 26.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 21 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.
- EA1990.1039
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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. 1032 on p. 306 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 306 fig. 1032
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VI e, 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. 44, 46, 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 red band with single, blue and white leaves, as in Cat. no. 1026 [EA1990.1033], and with rows of white dots on either side. Next to it is a continuous, curving red vine, its stem filled with two rows of white dots. Red rosettes are attached to it; the background is dark blue. In addition there is the beginning of a second red band at right angles to the first, as well as a blue field with white bunches of fruit and leaves, linked by tendrils.
Selvedge, with the remains of stitching along two sides of the fragment. For both red and blue, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The band of single leaves is similar to two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although there the leaves are red with white outlines on a red ground (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 32 & 36).
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