Peach Stone Black

Natural organic pigment

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Composition and Properties of Peach Stone Black

Peach-stone black is finely ground material obtained by carbonizing (charring) stones of peaches. The pigment is very stable and lightfast as are all carbon blacks and it is compatible with all other pigments.

Pigment

Painted swatch

Names

Color Index

PBk 8, CI 77268

Word origin

From Old French pesche “peach, peach tree” and directly from Medieval Latin pesca, from Late Latin pessica, variant of persica “peach, peach tree,” from Latin malum Persicum, literally “Persian apple,” translating Greek Persikon malon, from Persis “Persia”
From Online Etymology Dictionary

Pfirsichkernschwarz

German

Noir de noyaux de pêches

French

Nero di noccioli di pesca

Italian

Negro de melocotón

Spanish

Preparation

Peach stone black is finely ground material obtained by carbonizing (charring) stones of peaches.

Peach-stones

Identification

Raman Spectrum

(1) Eugenia P. Tomasini, Emilia B. Halac, María Reinoso, Emiliano J. Di Liscia and Marta S. Maier, Micro-Raman spectroscopy of carbon-based black pigments, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Special Issue: Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 11, pp. 1671–1675, November 2012.

(2) Alessia Coccato, Jan Jehlicka, Luc Moens and Peter Vandenabeele, Raman spectroscopy for the investigation of carbon-based black pigments, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Special Issue: 11th International GeoRaman Conference, Volume 46, Issue 10, pages 1003–1015, October 2015. DOI: 10.1002/jrs.4715. Available as pdf.