Historic Usage
Jo Kirby of the National Gallery London notes the occurrence of the pigment bice in three grades in an account of Tudor painting at Greenwich Palace in 1527. In this case, the three grades indicate the use of the mineral azurite rather than a manufactured blue copper carbonate. Similarly, green bice in other 16th-records may sometimes have been the mineral malachite. Ian Bristow, an historian of paint, concluded that the pigment Blue Bice found in records of British interior-decoration until the first half of the 17th-century was azurite. The expensive natural mineral azurite was superseded by manufactured Blue Verditer.
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