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Dammar.
Natural resin widely used as a picture varnish and as an additive to oil paint (see RESIN, §1). It is obtained from several species of tree growing in South-east Asia. Dammar becomes yellow with age but is less prone to surface disfigurement than mastic, which it gradually superseded during the 19th century.
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