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Textile fragment with arches and stylized plants
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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 brown, block-printed with resist, dyed blue
- Dimensions
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22 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,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.
- EA1990.1072
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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. 1065 on p. 316 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 316 fig. 1065
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 band of pointed arches with a pearl border. Inside the arch is a red star on blue ground, and the background of the band is red. It is followed by a brown band with fine, white continuous tendrils and red flowers. At right angles to both bands is apattern of stylized, upright plants, each set into a large trefoil or lobed arch with a
pearl border. These lobed surrounds are filled with red or blue and form a complementary symmetry.
For both red and brown, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, but there is more blue. The design is very carefully executed.
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