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Textile fragment with circles, rosettes, 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 15th century - 1st half of the 17th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed brown, painted with mordant, and dyed red
- Dimensions
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23 x 21.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.713
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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. 706 on p. 208 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 208, illus. vol. ii p. 208 fig. 706
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Fig. 35, illus. 50
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. Pl.XIc, illus. 55
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 continuous design of large circles, each with a red rosette at the centre and filled with tendrils; the circles are linked by small floral crosses, as in Cat. no. 705 [EA1990.712].
The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 705 [EA1990.712]; possibly both were part of the same fabric. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. For further comment and date, see the previous textile [EA1990.712]. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.
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