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 . Design by Boucher for Heading of one of M. Pattes mounts. Roentgen used pear, lime,and light coloured woods, occasionallytinted by burning, which is done eitherby hot irons or by hot sand, the latterbeing the best. Only dark yellowsand browns are obtained by thisprocess. Other tints, like greens andblues, are obtained by steeping thewood in chemical solutions. This mar-quete
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 . Design by Boucher for Heading of one of M. Pattes mounts. Roentgen used pear, lime,and light coloured woods, occasionallytinted by burning, which is done eitherby hot irons or by hot sand, the latterbeing the best. Only dark yellowsand browns are obtained by thisprocess. Other tints, like greens andblues, are obtained by steeping thewood in chemical solutions. This mar-queterie was often placed on a ground-work of parqueterie, that is, the groundhas veneers on one half or quarter ofthe panel going one way, and on theother half or quarter going the reverseway. I have shown a specimen of thisstyle of inlay on page 326. Among the makers of gilt bronzefurniture mounts, Gouthieres namestands pre-eminent. He undertookvarious sorts of work—mounts to goon chinmeypieces, carriages, furniture,etc. The gilding on these mounts iswater gilt, probably double, and so Louis XV. LE PRINCE. 335Middle 18th Century. good and laid on somassively that it isalmost as good asnew. The manufac-tory of Sevres wascalled upon to sup-ply plaques forsome of the
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