A work made of wood, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, with silk border and dust cover.

Final Page and Back Cover of Buddhist Manuscript With Four Guardian Kings

Unknown artist · 17th/18th century

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Palette

Dark ochre
38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Raw umber
25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Bistre
17% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1

Oyster
9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1

Slate
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1

Olive
5% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.9:1

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: 17th/18th century
Type: Painting
Medium: Wood, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, with silk border and dust cover
Size: 19.1 × 60.1 × 2 cm (7 1/2 × 23 5/8 × 3/4 in.)
Place: Mongolia
Period: 16th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 46, colourfulness 29

Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Gentles Fund. 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

Final Page and Back Cover of Buddhist Manuscript With Four Guardian Kings

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