The three buttons in front were small, light blue enameled half-globes with penguins in them.
The blue enameled border of the medallion bears the motto "In action faithful and in honour clear".
It featured a base of vertical strips of stainless steel holding in bowed, bright blue enameled panels; glass-block infill and horizontal blue and stainless steel striping along the top, all accented under lurid red neon.
Its intricately carved outer structure of bright blue enameled metal is enhanced by pearls, precious stones and gold with an inlaid design of kingfisher feathers depicting dragons, phoenixes and the character xi, for happiness.
They received New York Police Department dashboard placards that for many years allowed them to park free almost anywhere in the city, as well as Police Department identification cards and even gold and blue enameled badges that identified them as honorary police surgeons.
Blue enamels colored by lazurite are usually described as cold-mixed due to their relatively heterogeneous microstructure and the presence of angular particles of sulphur-bearing sodium alumino-silicate.
The dichotomy between nature's sweetness and war's destructiveness is further described in chapter eighteen: "A cloud of dark smoke as from smoldering ruins went up toward the sun now bright and gay in the blue, enameled sky".
I've tried them all: speckled blue enamel, disposable aluminum, heavy industrial gray.
One side is blue enamel with a pearl cross; on the other is a window containing a rose petal.
"All that blue enamel -- for water -- shows Manhattan to be an island," said Mr. Godard, who did the design and artwork.
Plymouth porcelain is marked in underglaze blue, blue enamel, red, or gold, with the alchemical sign for tin.
