Textile fragment with peacocks and trees in roundels

Title

Textile fragment with peacocks and trees in roundels
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

55 x 47 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.257

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Catalogue text

A continuous field with roundels and stylized leaves. The roundels are identical to Cat. no. 157 [EA1990.165]. They have a symmetric design, with small flowers at the centre and four representations of two peacocks facing a central tree.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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