Persian red

 ( Persian Red ) 

Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with Magnesium oxide. It is also called artificial vermillion.

The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English language was in 1895.Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201

Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian blue and Persian green.

• Henry Hobson Richardson insisted upon a ground of Persian red for the murals John LaFarge executed lining the interior of Trinity Church, Boston.Raguin, Virginia C. Decorator: John LaFarge in The makers of Trinity Church in the city of Boston, ed. James F. O'Gorman, D. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004. p 120

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