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Textile fragment with rosettes, quatrefoil, diamond-shapes, and stylized trees
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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, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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29.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.212
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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. 204 on p. 57 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 58, illus. vol. ii p. 57 fig. 204
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 46 & 61, pls VII b & XIX f
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
Bands of floral design framed by rows of beads; in one band a twelve-petalled rosette alternates with an ornate quatrefoil, as in Cat. no. 113 [EA1990.121], in the other an eight-petalled rosette alternates with a diamond shape containing a small rosette of dots. In the latter the design is set into squares framed by lines of dots, as in Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. On one side of the bands are twelve-petalled rosettes, on the other stylized trees, every second one supported by a triangular mound. The resist defines the pattern.
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