Manuscript Cover from the Five Protectors (Pancharaksha)

Nepal

13th century

Medium

Pigments, metallic paint on wood, and metal

Classification

Religious/Ritual Object

Dimensions

9 × 30 × 2.2 cm (3 1/2 × 11 13/16 × 1 in.)

Culture

Nepal

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Gift of Michele Wiener Caplan

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Metalwork
• Faith and religion
• 1200s
• Nepal
• Orange