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Textile fragment with hamsa, or geese, and quatrefoils
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1400
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink, red and brown; with repair stitching in blue flax, and a seam in black cotton
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm max. (thread count)
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dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.807
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Further reading
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), fig. 38, 52
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), fig. IIa, 32-33
Bérinstain, Valérie, ‘Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt’, Marg, 40/3, (1989), fig. 1, 17
Barnes, Ruth, Emma Dick, and Jon Thompson, Textiles Through the Ages (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2002), p. 14, p. 14
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 805 on p. 236 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 236 | vol. ii p. 236 fig. 805 & vol. i pl. 40
Location
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- currently in research collection
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