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Textile fragment with tear-drops and dotted vine
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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 mordant-dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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24 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.555
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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. 548 on p. 163 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 163 fig. 548
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 49, pl.VIIIb
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
A diagonal band with a dotted, continuous vine and stylized leaves, as in Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532], and fragmentary evidence of a second band at a right angle. There also is the beginning of a large design with tear-drop shapes which have a radiating surround and a small rosette inside each, as well as large, eight-petalled rosettes alternating with each tear-drop. The resist defines the pattern, and the background is brown or red.
For both red and brown, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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