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Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably 13th century (1201 - 1300)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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19.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.306
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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. 297 on p. 88 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 88, illus. vol. ii p. 88 fig. 297
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), pl. VIII c
Kühnel, Ernst, Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), cat. 87, pl.50
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Interlocking spiral that can also be read as a floral design, as in Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]; in addition there is a border with chevrons, as in Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].
The fragment may have been part of Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305]. It would date to the 13th century in that case.
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