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This is also the name given to a type of Chinese porcelain with a cloudy green glaze. The porcelain glaze was meant to imitate jade. Celadon ware was first imported into Europe at about the same time that d'Urfe's romances were popular. The beautiful shepherd Celadon was portrayed as wearing a green cloak, hence the name.
...Rohmer is an old man, an artist, who is dreaming of his youth. The fact that he has a camera and access to other artists of his own trade are a happy accident of his own fate...and our's.