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Textile fragment with medallions and plants
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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 mordant, dyed red and black, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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20.5 x 32 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1108
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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. 1101 on p. 329 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 329 fig. 1101
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
Two design fields separated by three narrow bands. One of the fields has large, quadripartite red medallions filled with blue and white plants; the space between is filled with red and white plants against a blue ground. The other field has ornate, symmetrical plants, blue and white on a red ground. Black is used to outline some of the forms. The bands have a row of hexagons, a line of small stars, and an elaborate floral design against a black ground.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and black, but more for blue.
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