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Textile fragment with medallions, flowers, and tendrils
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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 mordant, and dyed red, with traces of purple
- Dimensions
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33 x 26 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 cm estimated (width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.313
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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. 304 on p. 90 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 90 fig. 304
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 28, illus. 60
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
Pointed, oval medallion with a beaded surround and a large, twelve-petalled flower inside which has a rosette in the centre; small, stylized tendrils fill the space between the medallions. These are white against a red background, while the flower inside each medallion is red against white. There are traces of the beginning of a different pattern in one corner of the fragment, with some purple dye.
The reverse is not saturated with dye. The width of the block used was 12 cm.
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