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Textile fragment with tendrils, elaborate rosettes, and squares
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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
- Dimensions
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14 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.859
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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. 853 on p. 251 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 251, illus. vol. ii p. 251 fig. 853
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 55, pl.XIb
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 continous field of small, densely set, white tendrils, with squares and elaborate rosettes made up from three circles of leaves. The pattern is set on a red ground, and the centres of the rosettes have brown details. There also is a very narrow brown border along the selvedge, with a row of small white rosettes.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 7.5 cm.
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