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Textile fragment with rosettes and inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
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13th century (1201 - 1300)
Ayyubid Period (1169 - 1260)
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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27.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.334
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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. 326 on p. 97 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 97 fig. 326
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
Bands of different width, all with a beaded border; eight-petalled rosettes, red against light and set in a circle of dots, two types of smaller rosettes and spirals in a wider band and loosely arranged, a band of script, and a cable pattern at right angles to the other bands.
The reverse is almost completely saturated with dye. The inscription reads 'perpetuity and good luck. Glory and...'; it derives from Ayyubid or early Mamluk script (c. 1200-1260). The textile may therefore have a mid-13th-century date.
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