gold
Persia
15th Century
Source: Marianna Shreve Simpson, Review of Paper before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World by Jonathan M. Bloom, Speculum, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Oct., 2003), pp. 1250-1252.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
gold
Preparation Steps
Gold pigment was applied to create landscape scenes on a 15th-century Persian manuscript leaf (p. 1252). While the review does not specify the binder, the gold was used in a painting medium to produce intricate Chinese-style landscape imagery on a dyed paper support (p. 1252).
Original Recipe Text
Gold pigment was applied to create landscape scenes on a 15th-century Persian manuscript leaf (p. 1252). While the review does not specify the binder, the gold was used in a painting medium to produce intricate Chinese-style landscape imagery on a dyed paper support (p. 1252).
Evidence
"a fifteenth-century Persian manuscript leaf (reproduced in full in fig. 32) written on blue Chinese paper and painted in gold with scenes of a Chinese landscape."
Remarks
The use of gold pigment on blue-colored paper demonstrates the aesthetic sophistication of 15th-century Persian manuscript illustration and the cultural synthesis of Persian and Chinese artistic elements (p. 1252).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionAu
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorGold
RegionPersia
Approx. Year1450
Source Information
AuthorMarianna Shreve Simpson, Review of Paper before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World by Jonathan M. Bloom, Speculum, Vol. 78, No. 4
CollectionPersia
Language
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