Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes
Metalworkers have used black patinas on high-status diminutive bronzes in the Mediterranean and Far East beginning in Antiquity. The textual evidence for these bronzes can be ambiguous, but their compositions have been intensively studied and characterized in recent decades. In addition to the ancie...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:techne_17341 https://doi.org/10.4000/techne.17341 urn:doi:10.4000/techne.17341 en https://journals.openedition.org/techne/17341 2023-11-23T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/l8od https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes Technè C2RMF info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2750-6185 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1254-7867 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/techne Mass, Jennifer L. Shugar, Aaron Finnefrock, Adam C. Tanimoto, Satoko Little, Margaret Stein, Renée Archie, Ellen patine sélénium bronzes noirs bleuissement des armes à feu bleuissage de l’acier patines noires antiques patine d’Herculanum patines de bronze antiques noir optique patine au sélénium selenium patination black bronzes gun bluing steel bluing ancient black patinas Herculaneum patina ancient bronze patinas optical black selenium toning Metalworkers have used black patinas on high-status diminutive bronzes in the Mediterranean and Far East beginning in Antiquity. The textual evidence for these bronzes can be ambiguous, but their compositions have been intensively studied and characterized in recent decades. In addition to the ancient technologies, elemental and molecular analysis of black bronzes across millennia and cultures reveals the frequent presence of selenium-based patinas, which we have identified as copper selenite dihydrate. Selenium patination formulations have long been viewed as the 19th century response to the black patinated alloys (such as shakudō and shibuichi) that arrived in Europe from Japan beginning in the Meiji restoration. However, the 19th century European technological literature does not support this, and so selenium-based patination technologies have remained obscure. In this paper, we examine the proliferation of selenium-based technologies in the early 20th century, along with the merits of hypotheses for their origins in patina formulations. Dès l’Antiquité, en Méditerranée et en Extrême-Orient, des métallurgistes ont utilisé des patines noires sur de petits bronzes de prestige. Les indices textuels peuvent se révéler ambigus, mais la composition de ces bronzes a fait l’objet d’études et de caractérisations approfondies au cours des dernières décennies. Les analyses élémentaires et moléculaires des bronzes noirs produits durant des millénaires dans différentes cultures mettent en évidence, outre les techniques antiques, la présence fréquente de patines au sélénium, que nous avons identifiées comme étant de la sélénite de cuivre dihydrate. On a longtemps considéré que les formulations de patine au sélénium furent utilisées en Europe au xixe siècle en réaction aux alliages patinés noirs (tels que le shakudō et le shibuichi) importés du Japon à partir de la restauration de Meiji. Mais la littérature technique européenne du xixe siècle ne confirme pas ce point de vue, de sorte que les techniques de patine au sélénium sont restées méconnues. Nous étudions ici le foisonnement des techniques à base de sélénium au début du xxe siècle, ainsi que la validité des hypothèses concernant leurs origines dans les formulations de patine. |
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patine sélénium bronzes noirs bleuissement des armes à feu bleuissage de l’acier patines noires antiques patine d’Herculanum patines de bronze antiques noir optique patine au sélénium selenium patination black bronzes gun bluing steel bluing ancient black patinas Herculaneum patina ancient bronze patinas optical black selenium toning |
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patine sélénium bronzes noirs bleuissement des armes à feu bleuissage de l’acier patines noires antiques patine d’Herculanum patines de bronze antiques noir optique patine au sélénium selenium patination black bronzes gun bluing steel bluing ancient black patinas Herculaneum patina ancient bronze patinas optical black selenium toning Mass, Jennifer L. Shugar, Aaron Finnefrock, Adam C. Tanimoto, Satoko Little, Margaret Stein, Renée Archie, Ellen Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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Metalworkers have used black patinas on high-status diminutive bronzes in the Mediterranean and Far East beginning in Antiquity. The textual evidence for these bronzes can be ambiguous, but their compositions have been intensively studied and characterized in recent decades. In addition to the ancient technologies, elemental and molecular analysis of black bronzes across millennia and cultures reveals the frequent presence of selenium-based patinas, which we have identified as copper selenite dihydrate. Selenium patination formulations have long been viewed as the 19th century response to the black patinated alloys (such as shakudō and shibuichi) that arrived in Europe from Japan beginning in the Meiji restoration. However, the 19th century European technological literature does not support this, and so selenium-based patination technologies have remained obscure. In this paper, we examine the proliferation of selenium-based technologies in the early 20th century, along with the merits of hypotheses for their origins in patina formulations. |
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Mass, Jennifer L. Shugar, Aaron Finnefrock, Adam C. Tanimoto, Satoko Little, Margaret Stein, Renée Archie, Ellen |
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Mass, Jennifer L. Shugar, Aaron Finnefrock, Adam C. Tanimoto, Satoko Little, Margaret Stein, Renée Archie, Ellen |
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Mass, Jennifer L. |
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Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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Selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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selenium-based black bronze treatment, as compared to other patination technologies of ancient and historic black bronzes |
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