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A work made of painted and lacquered papier-mâché.

Book Binding

Islamic · Qajar dynasty (1796–1925), 1822, 18th/19th century

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Palette

Smoke
 52% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Walnut
 30% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.5:1
Dark ochre
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Garnet
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.0:1
Ochre
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Sienna
 2% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.3:1

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
Islamic
Date
Qajar dynasty (1796–1925), 1822, 18th/19th century
Type
Painting
Medium
Painted and lacquered papier-mâché
Size
30.8 × 19.9 × 0.1 cm (12 1/8 × 7 13/16 × 1/16 in.)
Place
Iran
Period
18th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Kate S. Buckingham. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-11-01); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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