Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized animals, and stylized flowers
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Literature notes
A continuous design of large linked squares. There are two patterns; one has a central pole and two stylized animals on either side, one above the other, the second design is a stylized flower. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The design is a large version of Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. The central pole and stylized animals may represent the tree-of-life motif with flanking animals. Fragments with identical design have been found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 4, 11, 25, 2, 6, 29, 44, 46, 52, & 69.) Also published in Barnes 1990: 188, fig. 2. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 13th century - 14th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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58.5 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 14 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
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.146
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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. 138 on p. 3 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 36-38, illus. vol. ii p. 37 fig. 138
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection’, Textiles in Trade: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (Washington, D. C.: Textile Society of America, 1990), cat. 188, fig. 2
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 16, illus. 48
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 35, 37, 42-3, 49-50, 52, 59, 87, 91, 98, 100, 108-9, 112, 116.
Eastwood, Gillian, ‘Textiles’, Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson, eds, Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report, American Research Center in Egypt Reports, 7 (Malibu: Undena, 1982), cat. 292
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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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 continuous design of large linked squares. There are two patterns; one has a central pole and two stylized animals on either side, one above the other, the second design is a stylized flower. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The design is a large version of Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. The central pole and stylized animals may represent the tree-of-life motif with flanking animals. Fragments with identical design have been found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 4, 11, 25, 2, 6, 29, 44, 46, 52, & 69.) Also published in Barnes 1990: 188, fig. 2.
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