Genuine Naples Yellow...(?)

NAPLES YELLOW: Calcined mixture of carbonate of lead, tartarated antimony, alum and salamoniac in indefinite proportions.

'Genuine' Naples Yellow is so called because it is extracted from the lava of Vesuvius. Others affirm that its name comes from the categorical fact that it was first manufactured in Naples.

A source whose reliability is immaculate has informed that Italy imports Naples Yellow manufactured in France.

Furthermore, if one comes across a genuine Naples Yellow, it should never come in contact with the steel palette knife or the steel piece that secures the bristles of a brush for Naples Yellow deteriorates in contact with iron.

Someone write me back and inform me where genuine Naples Yellow, whether ready-prepared or in pigments, can be found.

---Alfredo Echeverria
mrdada_hotmail.com

 
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