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# Qanat

Qanat or palampore of painted cotton chintz. Depicting a centre field containing a conventional cypress tree set under an acanthus arch, and surrounded with a diaper of small floral cones on a red ground. The outer border is filled with continuous floral stems.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-50-1952](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-50-1952) · Pramāṇa
