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  • Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe;

    Further thoughts about “Pavlova” 2009

  • Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe;

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • These are not necessarily inconsistent, so saxe must almost certainly belong with the blues, while vieux rose saxe cannot possibly be anything other than pink.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • These are not necessarily inconsistent, so saxe must almost certainly belong with the blues, while vieux rose saxe cannot possibly be anything other than pink.

    Further thoughts about “Pavlova” 2009

  • “Saxe” and “vieux rose saxe” constitute a knotty problem because on the one hand saxe has strong associations with Dresden china (in all its diversity of color and style), but, on the other hand, it also retained dynastic associations with the heraldic blue of the kings of Saxony.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • “Saxe” and “vieux rose saxe” constitute a knotty problem because on the one hand saxe has strong associations with Dresden china (in all its diversity of color and style), but, on the other hand, it also retained dynastic associations with the heraldic blue of the kings of Saxony.

    Further thoughts about “Pavlova” 2009

  • Le vert de saxe est le plus beau vert qu'on ait encore fait en Europe.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • I have also done a regiment of saxe-Gotha dragoons and a green coated one with Revell figures, both 32 figures strong.

    Austrian Horse Grenadiers Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Its grey head was muffled in a saxe-blue chiffon motor-veil.

    Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day 2008

  • C'est ce meme hazard qui nous a fourni le verd de saxe car quel est l'homme qui peut découvrir par ses propres lumieres une exception à la regle generale.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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