malachite and azurite

Ingredients

malachite, azurite

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

A specific green color tone in Lahijan manuscripts (AKM 6) was produced by mixing two distinct copper carbonate minerals: malachite and azurite (p. 275). This mixture is noted as a unique characteristic of the Lahijan school, distinguishing it from most other Persian schools which typically used copper green or indigo+orpiment (p. 275, 288).

Evidence

"Interestingly, Lahijan painters, unlike painters in other cities (schools), have used a pigment containing two minerals, malachite and azurite, which has created a special colour tone (Fig. 5-185)."

Remarks

This specific combination was also identified in one case from Herat, with historical parallels identified in studies by Knipe et al. 2018 (p. 275).