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Thomas Day · ca. 1850

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Silver
63% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.4:1

Chalk
14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1

Chestnut
13% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.2:1

Ash
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1

Sienna
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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

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Artist: Thomas Day
American, 1801–1861
Date: ca. 1850
Type: Decorative arts & sculpture
Medium: Cherry, mahogany veneer, mahogany, conifer (secondary wood)
Size: 28 3/4 × 34 × 17 in. (73 × 86.4 × 43.2 cm)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Grey · lightness 69, colourfulness 6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Fund, 2022. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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