43183
Accession Number
1918
Author
Richter, E.L.; Härlin, H.
Title Of Article Chaper
The 'Stuttgarter Kartenspiel' - preliminary report on the technical examination of the pigments and paint layers of medieval playing cards
Title Of Journal Book
Icom committee for conservation. 4th triennial meeting, Venice, 13-18 October 1975. Preprints
Pages
75211-1 75211-3
Publisher
Icom
Publisher City
Paris
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
Icom commitee for conservation triennial meeting. 4.
Meeting City
Venice
Abstract
Playing cards from the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart date from about 1430. The cards are made from layers of glued paper with calcium curbonate priming on the front, and a mixture of red lead and vermilion on the back. The background is red bole covered with twist-gold (laminated gold-silver lead. Pigments used were lead white (the most common white), chalk, lead-tin yellow, yellow lake, basic copper sulfate hydrate (CuSO<sub>4</sub> (OH)<sub>6</sub> x H<sub>2</sub>O), an unidentified green, azurite, vermilion, madder lake, red lead, red ochre, charcoal black, and possibly lamp black, and a brown bistre-like pigment. Gold leaf, powder leaf, powder gold and mosaic gold (SnS<sub>2</sub>) were used. See also 13-1059.
Keywords
Painting, paper; Paper, dating; Paper, watermark; Pigment, analysis; Pigment, black carbon; Pigment, blue azurite; Pigment, green copper sulphate; Pigment, mosaic gold; Pigment, red lead; Pigment, red vermilion; Pigment, red ochre; Pigment, red lake; Pigment, white chalk; Pigment, white lead; Pigment, yellow lake; Pigment, yellow lead tin; Painting, ground chalk; Gilding, gold leaf; Spectroscopy, x ray diffraction -- ICCROM
pub_id
43183
Meeting Date
19751013-19751018