Clearly this colour had huge meaning for the ancient Egyptians but after the fall of the Roman Empire turquoise pigment production fell into decline and in Europe there was no turquoise color like this available to artists until the 20th century.Ĭobalt Teal is a true turquoise colour much like the gemstone. One of her names was The Lady Of Turquoise. It was also the colour of Hathor who was the goddess of new born babies. It was the colour used to represent the rays of the rising sun and was said to be the colour of the eye of the god Horus. Light green pigments generally were used to represent joy, but turquoise was considered to the most important of these pigments and embodied promise and omens for the future. Its name was mefkaht and it had an impressive hieroglyph that included the symbols for Horus, a viper, outstretched arms, the rising sun, and 3 grains of sand. Since it was made directly from gemstones the colour was fabulously expensive but since all art in ancient Egypt was made by artists and scribes in the employ of the temples and pigments were therefore ultimately paid for by the pharaoh cost was no object. It is similar to the colour of the best quality turquoise stone which was mined in the Sinai and was crushed and processed to produce this gorgeous turquoise colour. Cobalt Teal is a high-performance cobalt pigment developed during the 20th century but the color itself as an artists colour is much more ancient.
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