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Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in flax and cotton
- Dimensions
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40 x 16.5 cm (warp x weft)
25 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (main field) 13 cm estimated (length)
block (border band) 13 x 5 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.803
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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. 796 on pp. 233-234 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92, illus. vol. ii p. 233 fig. 796
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IVa, c, illus. 37
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 31, illus. 63
Bérinstain, Valérie, ‘Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt’, Marg, 40/3, (1989), cat. fig. 4, illus. 18
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:171-2; III:Pl.283.
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 field of paired leaves and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. One of each paired leaf is filled with dots, the outlines are white, and the background is red. A border band with paired leaves and rosettes is also identical to Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801].
Selvedge; remains of stitching. The length of one block side used for the continuous design was 13 cm.; the size of the block for the border band was 13 cm. x 5 cm. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used for both brown and dark red was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for radiocarbon results.
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