High chest of drawers

American artist · 1740–60

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Palette

Silver
61% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.8:1

Charcoal
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.4:1

Umber
10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.9:1

Caramel
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1

Honey
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Slate
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

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: American artist
Date: 1740–60
Type: Decorative arts & sculpture
Medium: Japanned maple, japanned white pine, white pine, japanned birch; brass
Size: 86 1/2 x 40 x 21 1/2 in. (219.7 x 101.6 x 54.6 cm)
Place: United States
Period: 18th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

High chest of drawers

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