Orange shellac

Orange Shellac

Description

Light orange, transparent flakes of shellac that have been cleaned but not bleached. Orange shellac has also been made by coloring bleached shellac with up to 1% orpiment.

Synonyms and Related Terms

"gomme laque orangée (Fr.); goma laca anaranjada (Esp.) "

FTIR

Other Properties

Soluble in ethanol.

Authority

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 706

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000