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