• TERTIARY Shades—olive And sage, ochre, terra cotta and russet, peacock blue—were being favored, a palette influenced by William Morris’s revival of medieval formulas, and with the subdued but obvious tones of Japanese woodblock prints. The Japanesque was needless to say propelled by the “opening of Japan” by Commodore Perry’s https://www.watchesworld.com/exploring-the-aesthetics-of-dial-design-and-decoration/