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Textile fragment with sitting hamsa, or geese
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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; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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24 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
11 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.854
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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. 848 on p. 249 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 249 fig. 848
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. Fig. 27, illus. 43
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 field of red sitting geese (hamsa) against a background of brown dots on white.
A selvedge with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The same design appears at Ajanta, as part of a dress. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.
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