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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
- 14th century - 1st half of the 17th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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38.5 x 31.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 13 x 9 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.804
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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. 797 on p. 234 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 92, 233-236, & 236, illus. vol. ii p. 234 fig. 797 & vol. i pl. 12
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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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of paired leaves and quatrefoils, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. Again one of each paired leaves is filled with dots. The arrangement of quatrefoils is most clearly seen in this example; there are four different types.
The size of the entire block used is best seen in this example; it was 13 cm. x 9 cm. The reverse is heavily saturated with dye. Radiocarbon dating has given a result of 1460CE+/-70.
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