page_title: Oxblood
section_title: London Underground
hierarchical_section_title: Oxblood / London Underground
caption_attribution_description: The glorious red-tiled frontage of Russell Square station on the Piccadilly line
context_page_description: Oxblood or ox-blood, also known as temptress, is a color that is a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues. The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning is used in various contexts in English, but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in Chinese ceramics.
  The name is often used in fashion, especially for shoes. The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.
context_section_description: From 1903, the English architect Leslie Green used an industrial, solid, sang de boeuf glaze on the glazed architectural terra-cotta tiles for the exteriors of the stations of a large part of the London Underground system, which was then divided between a number of commercial companies. His employer, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London was building the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, which are now respectively sections of the Piccadilly line, Bakerloo line and Northern line.  The Leeds Fireclay Company made the tiles.
caption: Russell Square station, Piccadilly line, with the oxblood tiles used on many London Underground station buildings.
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