An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . ;violet, white, green, andseveral other kinds ofebony; cinnamoncedar, cypress, purple-wood, boxwood, tulip-wood, amboyna, king-wood, sycamore, hare-wood, rosewood, andvarious other woodsfrom Asia, America, etc. A carriage painternamed Vernis-Martin in-vented a process, whichis named after was born in 1706. v3 CO be 8 1 — Si u v Louis XVI. LALONDE. Vernis-martin is a sort of v
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . ;violet, white, green, andseveral other kinds ofebony; cinnamoncedar, cypress, purple-wood, boxwood, tulip-wood, amboyna, king-wood, sycamore, hare-wood, rosewood, andvarious other woodsfrom Asia, America, etc. A carriage painternamed Vernis-Martin in-vented a process, whichis named after was born in 1706. v3 CO be 8 1 — Si u v Louis XVI. LALONDE. Vernis-martin is a sort of varnish of a fine transparent lacpolish, said to have been derived from Japan through themissionaries. It is generally found on small articles, such assnuff-boxes, needle-cases, fans, etc., on a gold ground, but issometimes used in panels of furniture. The gold is wavedor striated by some of those ingenious processes still in useamongst the Japanese, by which the paste or preparation isworked over while still soft. The panels are sometimescoloured green and varnished. Among the velvets, silks anddamasks in use at the beginning of the 17th century were (Continued on page 3 9.) 371 Last I lalf 1 Nth
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