The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 46 were the usual color decorations of ceilings, furniture,carriages, and a host of minor articles such as fans,etuis, snuff-boxes, &c. The latter smaller articles, aswell as the state, carriages, were decorated with paint- 76 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER. Figure 47 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 77 ings in what was known as the Vernis-Martin was a decorator of carriages and
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 46 were the usual color decorations of ceilings, furniture,carriages, and a host of minor articles such as fans,etuis, snuff-boxes, &c. The latter smaller articles, aswell as the state, carriages, were decorated with paint- 76 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER. Figure 47 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 77 ings in what was known as the Vernis-Martin was a decorator of carriages and an heraldicpainter, who invented the particular hard varnish orlacquer which bears his name. It was quite likely thatthis was as near as possible a successful imitation ofthe Japanese gold lacquer that decorated the articleswhich were at this period imported from Japan by theDutch and Portuguese traders into Europe. Car-riages, tables, cabinets, and especially smaller articleslike snuff-boxes and needle-cases, were painted anddecorated in Vernis-Martin. Some of the smallerobjects were beautifully mounted in chased gold. It was quite a common practice to cover or to panelfurniture with plaques of Japanese lacquer, and tomount them in chased metal or ormoulu unique commode is illustrated at Fig. 47, made frompanels of very old Japanese lacquer and highly dec-orated with ormoulu mounts by Caffieri, a skilled chaserof the Louis-Quinze period. In
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