Textile fragment with elephants and horses
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with elephants and horses
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist and dyed light-blue, block-printed with resist and dyed dark-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
First floor | Gallery 28 | Asian Crossroads -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.250
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Catalogue text
Two bands of continuous vines, tendrils turning back into scrolls and including ornate leaves, are set between rows of figures. The upper row shows the backs of two elephants, one of which is light blue. In the lower row two fragmentary horses appear, one with a rider.
Stylistically the fragment is close to a fabric in the Textile Museum (T.M. 6.88) that is illustrated by Gittinger (1982: Fig. 20).In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
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. 241 on p. 69 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 69 fig. 241 & vol. i pl. 39
