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Textile fragment with vine, tendrils, and fruit
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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, resist- and mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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27.5 x 8 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1045
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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. 1038 on p. 308 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1038
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pls IX c & d, illus. 51
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. 43, illus. 55
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 vine with curving tendrils, bunches of fruit, and a small palmette, white on a dark red ground. In addition, there is the fragment of a large flower head, with blue details and blue and white dots as a surround, possibly related to the design found in Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129].
Selvedge. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation for both red and blue.
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