A work made of ink and watercolor on paper.

Lady Offering Food to a Monk, From a Set of Initiation Cards (Tsakali)

Unknown artist · 14th/15th century

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Palette

Putty
33% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.3:1

Cinnamon
30% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1

Stone
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.2:1

Graphite
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

Oyster
9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.0:1

Pale gold
4% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.2:1

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

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Artist: Unknown artist
Date: 14th/15th century
Type: Painting
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper
Size: 16 × 14.5 cm (6 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Place: Tibet
Period: 14th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 58, colourfulness 21

Art Institute of Chicago, Margrette Dornbusch and Robert C. Ross Foundation endowments. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-29); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Lady Offering Food to a Monk, From a Set of Initiation Cards (Tsakali)

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