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Associated place

Africa › Egypt (find spot)

Africa › Egypt › Cairo › Cairo › Fustat (possible find spot)

Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)

Date

2nd half of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century

Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown

Dimensions

20.5 x 45 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width)

Material index

organic › vegetal › fibre,

processed material › textile

Technique index

assembled,

printed,

dyed,

coloured › dyed

Object type index

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.

Accession no.

EA1990.744
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. 737 on pp. 216-217 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 216 fig. 737 & vol. i pl. 29

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