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Textile fragment with circles, rosettes, and tendrils
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 15th century - 1st half of the 17th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown, painted with mordant, and dyed red
- Dimensions
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32.5 x 31 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 10 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.712
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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. 705 on p. 208 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 208 & 210, illus. vol. ii p. 208 fig. 705 & vol. i pl. 16
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XIc, illus. 55
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. 35, illus. 50
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 continuous field of large circles, each with an eight-petalled red rosette inside and filled with white tendrils on a brown ground. The circles are linked to each other by small floral crosses, white with brown outlines on a red ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The design is very carefully applied. Gittinger says about a similar fragment in the Textile Museum that the brown was produced by stamped mordant, but that the mordant for the red areas was filled in by hand; the same applies here. The block arrangement also is done as in the Textile Museum fragment: the four corners meet in the centre of the circle. The approximate block size was 10 cm. x 10 cm. Radiocarbon dating has given a date of 1595 CE+/-50.
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