The collection of French ceramics, organized by region, includes splendid yellow-tinted faience plates, mustard pots and serving pieces from Moustiers-Ste.-Mairie, a small town in Provence.
The robes are displayed as art, and their finely embroidered decorative symbols and splendid colors -- brilliant yellow for the emperor, more muted yellow for his underlings -- tell much about life and rank in the almost 300 years of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
We visit a splendid pastel yellow palace where the sultan resides, and then the surreal Crystal Mosque with its Islamic Civilisation Park, floating on a tiny island in the Terengganu river.
On some honeysuckle near the veranda, I had happened to see a Swallowtail — a splendid, pale-yellow creature with black blotches and blue crenulations, and a cinnabar eyespot above each chrome-rimmed black tail.
Most of these have flowers that are open faced, upright and in splendid shades of yellow, orange, red, pink, white and often blends of those colors.
With them was a small group of shore larks, showing their splendid black and yellow face pattern and the tiny 'horns' that give them their alternative name, horned lark.
The drive in to central London, dreary enough in reality, seemed incredibly splendid, a veritable yellow brick road, to the point that I stared at the nondescript bed-sitters and dreary industrial parks with as much excitement and interest as if they were Buckingham Palace, the Tower and Westminster Abbey combined.
The first house Mr. Sjoberg bought, 35 years ago, was Regnaholm, a splendid 18th-century white and yellow manor house that he now says was too large, too expensive and too distant from Stockholm -- 120 miles southwest in Ostergotlund.
Masked treefrogs peered from behind elephant ear leaves, and splendid poison dart frogs with yellow splashed on black induced "oohs" and "aahs" from the team.
What is splendid about Oz is the detail of things – yellow bricks, emerald glasses, oilcans.
