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Title: 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Strange, Thomas Arthur
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Furniture Interior decoration
Publisher: London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Bedstead of Carved and Gilt Wood, with coverings of Blue Silk Damask. — Among the woods used during the 18th century, besides those already mentioned, are mahogany, satin-wood, thuya wood, citron, amaranth, snakewood; violet, white, green, and several other kinds of ebony; cinnamon cedar, cypress, purple-wood, boxwood, tulip-wood, amboyna, king-wood, sycamore, hare-wood, rosewood, and various other woods from Asia, America, etc. A carriage painter named Vernis-Martin invented a process, which is named after him. He 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 the missionaries. It is generally found on small articles, such as snuff-boxes, needle-cases, fans, etc., on a gold ground, but is sometimes used in panels of furniture. The gold is wavedor striated by some of those ingenious processes still in use amongst the Japanese, by which the paste or preparation is worked over while still soft. The panels are sometimes coloured green and varnished. Am

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