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Textile fragment with stylized trees, and fruits or flowers
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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 mordant, dyed brown, resist-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with remains of stitching in blue flax
- Dimensions
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15 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.1131
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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. 1124 on p. 339 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 339, illus. vol. ii p. 339 fig. 1124
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XIIId, illus. 57
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 continuous design of stylized trees, similar to Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129]. The trees have faint, brown outlines. They have three fruits or flowers inside, and small white and blue dots surround them. They are blue, red, and white on a red ground, and the space between them is filled with white tendrils and bunches of fruit.
The reverse shows more dye saturation for red and blue, but the brown outlines that were first applied to the fabric appear only partly on the reverse. There are remains of blue stitching.
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