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Textile fragment with plants, half-medallions, and flowers
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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10 x 37 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.601
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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. 594 on p. 175 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 175-177, 179, & 182, illus. vol. ii p. 175 fig. 594
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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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A band with plants emerging from stylized mounds that take the form of half-medallions; a single flower with a thin stem and long petals seen in profile alternates with two asymetrical plants emerging from one base. The design appears in a part of Cat. no. 591 [EA1990.598]. The pattern is white against a red ground. Additional bands with a brown ground are fragmentary.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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