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Gold folded tall screen with red flowers, green maize plants.

Maize and Cockscombs

Unknown artist · mid 17th century

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Palette

Dark ochre
 58% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1
Ash
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Raw umber
 13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Pearl grey
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Sienna
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.7:1
Smoke
 1% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Unknown artist
Japanese
Date
mid 17th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Six-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
Size
170.2 × 357 cm (67 × 140 1/2 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
Edo period · 17th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 29

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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