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The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava

Western Tibet or Ladakh artist · 14th century

Palette

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

Western Tibet or Ladakh artist

Date

14th century

Type

Decorative arts & sculpture

Medium

Copper alloy with copper and silver inlay

Size

H. 23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm); W. 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm); D. 13 in. (33 cm)

Place

Western Tibet or Ladakh

Period

13th century

Main colour

Grey · lightness 43, colourfulness 5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zimmerman Family Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, The Vincent Astor Foundation, Eliot C. Nolen, T. Rowe Price Services, Inc. and Sir Joseph Hotung Gifts; Seymour and The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Funds, 2012. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules