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Textile fragment with rosettes or wheel-shapes, flowers, and plants
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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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24 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
blocks 7.5 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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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.
- EA1990.236
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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. 227 on p. 65 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 65 fig. 227
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IXi, illus. 51
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
Rosettes or wheel shapes alternating with eight-leafed flowers, each taking up approximately one-quarter of the block, while an undulating plant with leaves and flower-heads covers the remainder. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
It is likely that the design was printed with two square blocks, each measuring approximately 7.5 cm. x 7.5 cm.
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