Textile fragment with sitting hamsa, or geese
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with sitting hamsa, or geese
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
11 / 12 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.854
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of red sitting geese (hamsa) against a background of brown dots on white.
A selvedge with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The same design appears at Ajanta, as part of a dress. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.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. 848 on p. 249 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 249 fig. 848
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