Gold

Ingredients

gold, silver, orpiment

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The metallic luster was intentionally reduced through bead-grinding the gold surface or by alloying/mixing it with silver or orpiment (p. 238-239).

Evidence

"Shiraz painters also reduced the metallic luster of gold by grinding (beading) gold or by adding silver or orpiment. For example, the Inju style painter, the Timurid style painter of Or 420 Shāhnāma manuscript and the Turkman style painter of the Shāhnāma manuscript AKM 4 have used a combination of gold with silver or orpiment to reduce the brilliance of gold"

Remarks

The addition of silver was potentially also used as a cost-reduction measure (p. 239).