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A work made of ink and watercolor on paper.

Ritual Objects, from a Set of Initiation Cards (Tsakali)

Unknown artist · 14th/15th century

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Palette

Biscuit
 44% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.0:1
Tan
 18% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1
Chalk
 14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.6:1
Smoke
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Fawn
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1
Pale gold
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1

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

Details

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 68, colourfulness 19

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

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