Persian red
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Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It is also called artificial vermillion.
The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English was in 1895.<ref>Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201</ref>
Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian blue and Persian green.
In human culture
- Henry Hobson Richardson insisted upon a ground of Persian red for the murals John LaFarge executed lining the interior of Trinity Church, Boston.<ref>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</ref>
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