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

Title Page and Front Cover of a Buddhist Manuscript with Manjusri (left) and Mantramanudharani, a Pancharaksha Goddess (right)

Unknown artist · 17th/18th century

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Palette

Dark ochre
40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Charcoal
24% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.9:1

Biscuit
22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.3:1

Moss
6% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1

Mushroom
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Terracotta
4% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.5:1

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 48, colourfulness 30

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

Title Page and Front Cover of a Buddhist Manuscript with Manjusri (left) and Mantramanudharani, a Pancharaksha Goddess (right)

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