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A work made of fan; ink on silk, with bamboo-and-ivory handle.

Flowering Plum Blossom 梅花竹柄团扇

Unknown artist · Qing dynasty (1644–1912), 1892

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Palette

Lamp black
 65% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.8:1
Putty
 17% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.7:1
Mushroom
 10% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.7:1
Dark chocolate
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1
Iron
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Walnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.4:1

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
Chinese, active 19th century
Date
Qing dynasty (1644–1912), 1892
Type
Painting
Medium
Fan; ink on silk, with bamboo-and-ivory handle
Place
China
Period
19th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Black · lightness 23, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Russell Tyson. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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