Results for "imperial"
8 colours found.
- Hue, The purple imperial city Colour city
- Tyrian purple Glossary
- Royal purple Glossary
Yellow
Imperial yellow jacket黃馬褂
A yellow riding jacket marking the highest honour in Qing dynasty ChinaTraditional colour · 🇨🇳 China
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Purple
A cool colour between red and blue, long linked with royalty and rarityBasic colour · 🇱🇧 Lebanon +5
Purple and violet
Tyrian purple
A reddish-purple dye once worth its weight in silver, made from sea snailsDye · 🇱🇧 Lebanon +4
Green
Celadon青瓷
A jade-green ceramic glaze prized in East Asian pottery for centuriesNamed shade · 🇨🇳 China +4
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Royal blue
A strong, deep blue linked with royalty and national flagsNamed shade · 🇫🇷 France +4
Green
Jade
A decorative stone prized for its green shades and cultural meaning across continentsColour named from nature · 🇨🇳 China +5
Purple and violet
Purpure
A heraldic colour for purple, seen in coats of arms since early timesBasic colour
#FADA5E
Royal yellow
A yellow shade linked to the robes of Chinese emperorsNamed shade · 🇨🇳 China
In the swatch book
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tyrian purple: Photograph: U.Name.Me Derivative work: TeKaBe, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jade: Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Celadon: Vassil, Public domain, source
- Purpure: Lobsterthermidor ( talk ) 13:24, 30 April 2017 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Purple: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source