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Textile fragment with stylized leaves or trees
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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, mordant- and resist-dyed red and blue
- Dimensions
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19.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › 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.
- EA1990.1134
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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. 1127 on p. 340 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 340 fig. 1127
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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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
Stylized leaves or trees, red with white details and partly filled with light blue, set onto a blue ground and surrounded by white lines and dots. In addition, the background is filled with white tendrils. The pattern is similar to Cat. no. 1126 [EA1990.1133].
The dye saturation for red is virtually identical on surface and reverse, but there is more blue on the reverse.
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