These jade swords served not only as weapons but as symbols of authority and were usually worked from stone of specially fine colour or distinctive marking.
Sitting beside Freedman's report on the front page is a piece of fine colour-writing, less euphoric, by another Guardian US veteran, Alistair Cooke.
But still one longs to see their work, and although there are some fine colour plates, inevitably one yearns for more pictures.
The opposite was the case for an audiovisual performance of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn), sung with fine colour and nuance by the baritone Dietrich Henschel and played, with equal brilliance of detail and contrast, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov (and broadcast live on Radio 3).
These early exotica from the New World included now familiar plants such as the Michaelmas daisy, the Virginia creeper, hamamelis, goldenrod, the first perennial lupine, and such fine autumn-colouring trees as liquidambar and the staghorn sumac.
Viburnum opulus 'Xanthocarpum' (2.5-4m) finally comes out top not only for its juicy clusters of translucent, honey-coloured berries (the birds will eat them eventually, but not till everything red and orange has gone), but because it has so many other virtues – delicate, white lace-cap flowers, fine autumn colour, and infinite patience.
> The macula is a unique region within the CNS situated temporally to the optic disc and specialized for fine resolution colour vision.
By now it's a commonplace that William Eggleston more or less invented fine-art colour photography.
Bodily awareness may seem less rich and detailed than visual awareness, which can be analysed as full of fine-grained colour shades and well-individuated three-dimensional shapes that move around.
Carmine was used extensively for watercolours and fine coach-body colours before the advent of synthetic colouring materials.
