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Cassel|ˈkæsəl| The name of Cassel (now Kassel), a town in Germany, used attrib. to designate various pigments, as Cassel brown, Cassel earth, a brown prepared from impure lignite, Vandyke brown; Cassel green, a green consisting chiefly of barium manganese, Manganese green; Cassel yellow, a patent yellow pigment, Chinese yellow, mineral yellow.
1860Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 805 Vandyke, Cappab, Rubens, Cassel, and Cologne Browns. 1875T. Seaton Fret-Cutting viii. 105 The brown pigment is well known to artist's colourmen as Cassel earth. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 379/1 Another oxychloride, PbCl2.7PbO, known as ‘Cassel yellow’. 1885Ibid. XIX. 88/1 Cassel Green, called also Rosenstiehl's Green, is a fine innocuous pigment made by melting together sulphate of baryta and oxide of manganese... Vandyke brown and Cologne or Cassel brown, peaty ochres... Real Vandyke Brown..ought to be a kind of bituminous peaty earth..allied to which are Cologne and Cassel Earth. |