White polish for white wood and marqueterie work should be made with bleached shellac instead of the above.
An excellent example of a piece with cabriole legs is the charming little Marie Antoinette cylinder-fronted marqueterie escritoire in the Jones Collection (illustrated below).
Farewell to your marqueterieand Boule, your ribbons, festoons, and rosettes of gilded bronze; the hour has come when objects must be made to harmonize with circumstances.
The marqueterie of this period is extremely rich, the designs are less severe, but the colouring of the woods is varied, and the effect heightened by the addition of small pieces of mother of pearl and ivory.
Marqueterie and Intarsia are the same thing, though from habit the French title is generally used when speaking of work on a smaller scale.
Leaning back in a marqueterie chair and gazing down his uplifted nose at the sky-blue walls plastered with gold frames, he was noticeably silent.
The two were seated side by side on an arrangement in marqueterie which looked like three silvery pink chairs made one, with a low tea-table in front of them.
Mahogany and satinwood were the woods most frequently employed, and they were occasionally inlaid with marqueterie or edged with boxwood.
He was employed for many years at Versailles, where the mirrored walls, the floors of "wood mosaic," the inlaid panelling and the pieces in marqueterie in the Cabinet du Dauphin were regarded as his most remarkable work.
The pretty marqueterie cabinets disclose a set of Indian carved ivory chessmen and many quaint bits of china, whilst on a sofa, in solitary state, sits a knowing-looking little tame squirrel with a blue ribbon round its neck.
The polished oak floor is covered here and there with Persian carpets; near the door is a lovely Dutch marqueterie bureau, a husband's gift to a busy wife, and at which most of her well-known novels were written.
An old French marqueteriecabinet full of books stand in a recess vis-a-vis to a handsomely inlaid writing bureau with a silver basket of hothouse flowers on it.
Quite on the contrary, it was a tidy little weapon, of Smith and Wesson make, which lay in the upper right hand drawer of his marqueterie desk.
Cazeby was at the marqueterie desk in two strides, tugging at the upper right hand drawer.
Under him the later German marqueterie reached its highest point.
All this time she is opening a very pretty marqueterie writing-desk, on spiral legs, which Longcluse has been listlessly admiring, little thinking what it contains.
I got two charming Dutch marqueterie chairs for my drawing-room for 35/- each.
I do wish for a Dutch marqueterie chest of drawers with toilet glass attached, but he is £8!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marqueterie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
