polychrome

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The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022

“All reconstructions engage in uncertainty,” said Sarah E. Bond, a historian at the University of Iowa who has written extensively on the polychrome debate.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

A gallery devoted to religion and ritual pairs an 18th-century polychrome statue of St. Benedict of Palermo with a 1962 abstraction by Rubem Valentim that suggests the cosmology of Afro-Brazilian religious symbolism.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

The debris, rolling and flowing down the sides of the volcanic mountains, arching in great jets over the polychrome landscape, is more than enough to cover the impact craters.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan