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