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Tab with stars, circles, and crosses
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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, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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total, with EA1990.176.a 14 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
10.8 x 8.9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.176.b
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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. 168 on p. 46 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 46, illus. vol. ii p. 46 fig. 168
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XXIa
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 tab with a surround of stars and four circles, a circle and hatching of lines inside, as in Cat. no. 167 [EA1990.175]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Found to be in two pieces when taken off the original cardboard backing. Accessioned as 1990.176a and b.
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