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Textile fragment with linked medallions and rosettes
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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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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23 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block (mordant) 9 x 9 cm estimated (length x width)
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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.
- EA1990.969
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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. 963 on p. 286 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 286 fig. 963
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
Linked, red medallions with a white rosette at the centre and small tendrils and rosettes separated by lines of white dots. Blue medallions fit into the space between; these are filled with red and white tendrils and rosettes. This design is difficult to read, as the blue is crudely applied.
The reverse shows less red dye saturation than the surface, but far more blue. The blue areas are irregular, and the reserve was probably applied by hand. The block used for the mordant application had a size of 9 cm. x 9 cm.
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