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Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, 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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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57 x 24.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1043
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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. 1036 on p. 308 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1036
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 40, pl.Va,b
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 fragment of a large medallion, very similar to Cat. no. 1028 [EA1990.1035], is set against a blue and red background filled with white tendrils, leaves, and small rosettes. In addition there is a narrow, blue border band with a row of red and white rosettes.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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