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Textile fragment with stylized plants, tendrils, and flower-heads
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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33.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.615
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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. 608 on p. 179 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 179 fig. 608
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 60, pl.XVIIIc
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
Two wide bands flanked by narrow ones; one with stylized plant forms emerging from mounds shaped like half-medallions, as in Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], the other densely filled with tendrils which have leaves and flower-heads attached. This pattern is brown against a white ground. Two of the narrow bands have a row of diamonds, each filled with a cross. The diamonds are white against a brown ground. The other two bands have a row of crenellations which are reversible and can be read as white or red.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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