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Textile fragment with medallions
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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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23 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.765
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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. 758 on pp. 222-223 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 222 fig. 758
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 red medallions complement each other in shape. They are separated by narrow white bands with a single dotted line, interrupted by small cartouches and lobed medallions. Inside the large medallions are brown quatrefoils with white outlines that have small leaves emerging. The quatrefoils are filled with white tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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