• TERTIARY COLORS—olive And sage, ochre, terra cotta and russet, peacock blue—had been favored, a palette affected by William Morris’s revival of medieval formulas, and with the subdued but distinct tones of Japanese woodblock prints. The Japanesque was obviously propelled because of the “opening of Japan” by Commodore Perry’s celebrated https://www.watchesworld.com/exploring-the-aesthetics-of-dial-design-and-decoration/