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Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted frames, linked diamond-shapes, and Arabic inscription
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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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23 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.529
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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. 522 on p. 155 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 155 fig. 522
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
A band of eight-petalled rosettes set into a beaded roundel, and at a right angle to it there are two parallel bands, one with linked diamonds in a row, the other with three rows of small six-petalled rosettes each set into a white disc. Fragments of script appear on a curve, possibly part of a circlular form. In general, the patterns are outlined in white against a red ground, with some details picked out in brown.
The design is coarsely executed. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye. The fragment of script reads 'perpetuity'.
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