Zaffre

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template other Zaffre (also spelt Zaffer in American English, see spelling differences), a prescientific, or alchemical substance, is a deep blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore, and is made of either an impure form of cobalt oxide[1] or impure cobalt arsenate. During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain glass blue.[2]

The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name in English was sometime in the 1550s (exact year uncertain).[3]

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  1. ClayArt
  2. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts , 1845, "Pottery: Black glazing p 369.
  3. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Zaffer: Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample D11

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