Cloth with hamsa, or geese, lotus buds, and rosettes
On display
Details
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Title
Cloth with hamsa, or geese, lotus buds, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
1301 - 1450 -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
406 x 99 cm (warp x weft) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean, 1995.
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Museum location
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1995.61
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), vol. i p. 73, vol. i illus. 7 & vol. i pl. 13
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia’, Ars Orientalis, 34, (2004), p. 140, illus. p. 139 fig. 4
