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Textile fragment with stylized leaves, tendrils, and bunches of fruit
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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-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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32.5 x 32 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.1137
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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. 1130 on p. 341 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 342-343, illus. vol. ii p. 341 fig. 1130
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IXc, e, illus. 51
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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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Large stylized leaves, related to the plant design of Cat. no. 1121 [EA1990.1128]. The leaves are red on a blue background, with white ornamental details added. Each has a frame following its outline, made up from two parallel white lines. The background is filled with additional white tendrils and bunches of fruit.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for red than the surface, but more for the blue.
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