Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c28.s2.12

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Oddy *et al.* (1981: 100-01) analysed the pigments on the selected 121 pieces of Tibetan and Himalayan metalworks. A quarter of them were gold-painted. The other pigments used in the twelfth-sixteenth century AD context were subjected to X-ray diffraction analysis and found to be blue azurite, red lead, cinnabar, some amorphous black component etc.