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Textile fragment with concentric circles, triangles, and dots
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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, applied with resist (possibly partly by hand), mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with stitching in black cotton and yellow silk
- Dimensions
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26 x 21.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1051
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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. 1044 on p. 310 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 310 fig. 1044
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
A fragment of a circle or medallion, made up from red, blue, and white concentric circles filled with triangles and dots. The background has a large, red tendril surrounded by small, white lines on a blue ground; the design is similar to Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049]. There also is a sequence of red and white bands, with diamonds and medallions, and some blue details, as in that fragment [EA1990.1049]. In addition, there is a second band with a continuous red vine on a white ground, similar to Cat. no. 1034 [EA1990.1041]; the design is also comparable to Cat. no. 1128 [EA1990.1035].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. It is possible that the resist was at least partly applied by hand, rather than using a block.
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