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Textile fragment, possibly with medallions and cartouches
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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 brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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19 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1016
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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. 1009 on p. 299 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 299 fig. 1009
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
The design is very unclear, as the fragment is badly stained. There seem to be medallions with floral and interlace elaborations, as well as some small cartouches. The designs are outlined in dark brown and partly filled with red. Much of the background seems to be blue.
The condition of the fragment makes it difficult to come to conclusions about the dye application. However, the dark brown, very fine outlines of the pattern are more prominent on the surface than on the reverse.
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