• TERTIARY Hues—olive And sage, ochre, terra cotta and russet, peacock blue—were being favored, a palette motivated by William Morris’s revival of medieval formulas, and with the subdued but obvious tones of Japanese woodblock prints. The Japanesque was not surprisingly propelled from the “opening of Japan” by Commodore Perry’s celebrated https://www.watchesworld.com/exploring-the-aesthetics-of-dial-design-and-decoration/