Browse: 10610 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
Textile fragment with stylized plants
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, probably block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
-
14 x 12.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 8 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
-
assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1126
-
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. 1119 on p. 336 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 342, illus. vol. ii p. 336 fig. 1119
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VId, 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
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of stylized, red plants, their heads surrounded by white lines, and the blue background filled with white tendrils, similar to Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Unlike the previous fragments with a similar design, here the mordant seems to be stamped; there is a repetion of design. If a block was used, its size was 10 cm. x 8 cm. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: 34, 86, & Cat. no. 1).
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum