One of a Pair of Manuscript Covers from the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra)
Unknown artist · c. 17th century
Palette
Olive brown
Dark ochre
Oyster
Cinnamon
Rust
Fawn
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
- Date
- c. 17th century
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Pigments and metallic paint on wood
- Size
- 10.2 × 41.1 × 1.4 cm (4 × 16 3/16 × 9/16 in.)
- Place
- Nepal
- Period
- 17th century
- Main colour
- Brown · lightness 46, colourfulness 32
Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Nancy Wiener; Kate S. Buckingham Endowment 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.
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