Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis feelings, while the colour blue contrasts such as it creates the emotion of melancholy and desolation. According to Goethe's concept, yellow undergoes a transition of light becoming darker when light reaches its peak, just as the Sun shines in the sky, it develops to a white light that is colourless. But the light deepens and evolves the yellow into an orange and then finally to a ruby red hue. Turner illustrates the process of yellow transitioning into phases of light by showing how, as the viewer moves away from the centre, the edges get darker. The yellowing colouring of the
Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship a dark blue ground colour with caillouté decoration, trellis-work and scrolls in gold. The two panels were probably painted by André-Vincent Vielliard. The front panel shows peasants seated around a table outside a tavern. This scene was adapted from a detail of the painting Fête de Village by David Teniers the Younger. Baron Ferdinand purchased this vase from the collection of the 5th Earl Spencer. The ground colour of the third ship vase is a rare ‘petit vert’ which was only produced for a short time around 1760. It is believed to have been purchased from a ‘Mrs Yorke of