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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and leaves
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with a seam in flax, and with repair stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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63 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.805
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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. 798 on p. 234 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 92, illus. vol. ii p. 234 fig. 798
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 quatrefoils and paired leaves, as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801], but here without a border.
Seam and mending stitches. The fabric is sewn together from two fragments. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for details.
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