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A work made of handscroll; ink and slight color on paper.

Tea Drinking Under the Wutong Tree

Tang Yin · Ming dynasty (1369–1644), 1509

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Palette

Mushroom
 52% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.7:1
Oyster
 16% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 11.8:1
Stone
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Taupe
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Ash
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Smoke
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.6:1

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
Tang Yin
Date
Ming dynasty (1369–1644), 1509
Type
Painting
Medium
Handscroll; ink and slight color on paper
Size
23.4 × 332.8 cm (9 3/16 × 131 in.)
Place
China
Period
15th century
Themes
Trees and forests
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 67, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-28); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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