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Textile fragment with stylized plants, half-medallions, rosettes, and crenellations
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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 and brown
- Dimensions
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20 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.608
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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. 601 on p. 177 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 177 fig. 601
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 60, pl.XVIIIc
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 wide band with stylized plant forms emerging from half-medallions; a single flower, seen in profile and with long, thin petals alternates with an asymmetrical group of two plants. The design is similar to Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601]; it is white against a red ground. A narrow band with eight-petalled rosettes and lines of dots is adjacent to it, and the beginning of a band of crenellations is visible. The band of rosettes is white against a brown ground.
The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye than the surface.
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