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Textile fragment with floral medallion and Persian-style script
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with repair stitching in black thread, possibly cotton
- Dimensions
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33 x 35 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.774
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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. 767 on p. 225 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 225 fig. 767
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 very large floral medallion arranged as a quatrefoil and filled with small flowers and four tear-drop leaves; four additional smaller rosettes surround it. At the selvedge is a band with an inscription, as in Cat. no. 680 [EA1990.687]. All designs have white outlines further defined by fine brown lines against a red ground.
Selvedge and some black stitching, probably recently done to hold the fragment together. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The script is derived from Persian. 18th century?
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