Golden ocher

Description

1) A deep yellow earth pigment containing yellow iron oxide.

2) The name for a commercial pigment mixture of Yellow ocher and Chrome yellow. Golden ocher has been used as a house paint color.

golden ochre; ocre d'or (Fr.); Goldocker (Deut.)

1. Roman ocher; brown ocher

2. chrome ocher; chrome ochre

Raman (MFA)

Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000