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Ikat coat
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Uzbekistan (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 1801 - 1869
- Associated people
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Robert Shaw (1839 - 1879) (owner)
- Material and technique
- silk, with ikat-dyed warp; two cotton linings, printed, one dyed red, the other dyed orange and cream; raw cotton padding; yellow silk or cotton braid
- Dimensions
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width at waist 143 x 77 cm (height x width)
width at sleeve 216.5 cm (width)
width at hem 130 cm (width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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coloured › dyed › resist dyed › ikat resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Transferred from the Indian Institute.
- Accession no.
- EAX.3977
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Emma Dick, and Jon Thompson, Textiles Through the Ages (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2002), cat. p. 20, illus. p. 21
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Dressing for the Great Game: the Robert Shaw Collection in the Ashmolean Museum’, Khil`a, 1, (2005), p. 1, illus. p. 2 fig. 1
Location
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- currently in research collection
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