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Descripción : A rare Egyptian wood artist palette with paint and brushes, Fine museum quality. It you are a collector of Egyptian antiquities this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase an item such as this. We have never seen another outside of a museum. Roman Period, c. 1st – 2nd Century AD, long and rectangular in shape, one end with five hemispherical depressions, each with varying amounts of color pigment preserved within. The opposite end with cut-out opening containing five brushes, the fibers at the end now lost, each with remains of the same pigments contaminated on the palette’s surface. Above the brush ‘tray’ are three triangular-shaped inlays in blue glass, imitating lapis lazuli, a rectangular bone inlay decorated with incised concentric circles above. 10 1/8 in x 1 ½ in (25.7 x 3.7 cm). A very rare and critical component for the artist, who obviously was of some means to have such a nice palette. Ex George W. Roberts collection, West Chester PA, assembled in the mid 1800's. Below find a description of every color that we find in this palette. The six basic colors on the color palette of most Egyptian artists were: red, green, blue, yellow, white and black. Most of the color-pigments used were natural in origin except for Egyptian Blue Frit. The only red hues known to ancient civilization were natural earth minerals such as Red Iron Oxide and Cinnabar. Madder and Indigo were known principally as textile dyes, but may also have been employed in ink-form as artists pigments. For red-orange colors, the Egyptians relied on realgar. Chemically related to the yellow pigment orpiment, the mineral ore Realgar was employed widely throughout the Middle East until the 19th century. The basic Egyptian green came from Malachite a natural green copper ore, mined along with its blue variant called Azurite. These derived from Azurite and a beautiful dark blue hue called Egyptian Blue, made synthetically from ground blue glass (calcium copper silicate). Also known as Egyptian Blue Frit, this dark blue pigment was used to color a number of different mediums like stone, wood, plaster, papyrus, and canvas. Egyptian artists relied on rich lemon yellow pigment called Orpiment. These were derived from the mineral Gypsum, which was mined for white. Chalk was also used. The only black pigments known to have been used in Ancient Egypt were Lamp Black and various forms of carbon black from charcoal.
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