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Textile fragment with linked medallions, stylized leaves, and squares
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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16 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.248
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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. 239 on p. 68 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 68 fig. 239
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. 43, 99
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
Curving, narrow bands with dots inside are arranged to form linked medallions. Circles are set onto the bands; stylized leaves and a square centre fill the medallions. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some remains of stitching. A similar group of fragments has been found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28).
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