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Textile fragment with rosettes, quatrefoils, and interlace based on script
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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, possibly dyed blue, and possibly applied with mordant
- Dimensions
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30 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.274
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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. 265 on p. 76 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 76 fig. 265
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.XXVIb,d,e, illus. 71
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
Interlace based on script, but here without meaning, as in Cat. no. 264 [EA1990.273]; there is an additional field with a continuous floral design of rosettes and quatrefoils. The resist defines the pattern, the background was originally ?blue.
The fragment is heavily stained, like Cat. no. 264 [EA1990.273]. Possibly the textile also had a mordant applied.
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