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Textile fragment with Maltese cross and rosettes
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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, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink
- Dimensions
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27.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.370
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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. 368 on pp. 109-110 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 109 fig. 368
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
The main design can be read either as a large Maltese cross filled with rosettes, and stylized floral forms filling the space between the arms, or alternatively as trefoils, linked and with their tips pointing towards a small rosette. The pattern can be read as either red on white ground, or white against a red ground. In addition there is a band of squares and a narrow band of tooth-edge design.
Surface and reverse show almost an identical precision of design.
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