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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 37-48Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2011.07.021
Keywords
17th century majolica; Glazed tiles (azulejos); Pigments; Glaze analysis
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- LNEC [PIP 17684, 17692]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/42286/2007]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/42286/2007] Funding Source: FCT
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A multi-analytical approach was used to study the pictorial layers of a set of 17th century historic glazed tiles (azulejos) of Portuguese manufacture. The pictorial layer was studied by mu-EDXRF, mu-Raman, SEM-EDS and OM. Although the established palette comprises few pigments, it was found that the tiles were enhanced by the use of pigment mixtures, which were identified by mu-Raman and mu-EDXRF. As expected, the blue colour derives from cobalt oxide, purple from manganese oxide and emerald-green from copper oxide. Regarding the yellow pigment, mu-Raman results show it is consistent with the composition of a ternary oxide, whereas mu-EDXRF shows a high intensity of Zn in this colour, indicating a composition close to a Pb-Sb-Zn ternary oxide. Some compounds from the original ores were also indentified: in two very dark blue samples, cobalt and nickel olivines (alpha-Co2SiO4, alpha-Ni2SiO4), and in a dark brown sample, braunite (a manganese silicate). (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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