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Textile fragment with tear-drops and stylized 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 resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue
- Dimensions
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20 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.224
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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. 216 on p. 62 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 306, illus. vol. ii p. 62 fig. 216
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.B, V, XX, illus. 40
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. Fig. 9, illus. 32
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
Stylized flower-heads set into tear-drop shapes with a beaded border; a band of abstract leaf shapes separates these from large, radiating arches, similar to Cat. no. 215 [EA1990.223]. The arches are filled with dots, and the spandrels contain a flower head, seen inside view.
Some light blue appears in the separating band and in the tear-drop shape.
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