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Textile fragment with 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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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27 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- 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.
- EA1990.1121
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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. 1114 on p. 334 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 334 fig. 1114
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VI d, illus. 45
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 34, 86
Lamm, Carl Johan, Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1937), cat. 171, pl.XXIVb.
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design related to the stylized plants of Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120], but the plants are larger. They have the same halo-like surround as Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120]. White tendrils fill the blue background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The resist applied prior to the blue dye is apparently drawn by hand. The design is similar to a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990).
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