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Textile fragment with linked medallions and stars
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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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18.5 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.745
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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. 738 on p. 217 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 217 fig. 738
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
Large linked medallions are filled with elaborate star shapes of two types. One has a star or rosette at the centre and increasingly large stars surrounding it, separated by borders of flower-heads; it is red and brown on a white ground. The other is made up from a delicate continuous tendril, which traces the outline of the star. Four flowers emerge from this, of which only three survive, and there is a small rosette at the centre. The medallion frames are white with brown dots.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface
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