The names of Roentgen, under whom the later German marquetry perhaps reached its highest point, Riesener and Oeben, testify to their nationality.
Marquetry in a shallower form was also extensively used in the latter part of the 18th century.
A good deal of marquetry was executed in England in the later Stuart period, mainly upon long-case clocks, cabinets and chests of drawers, and it is often of real excellence.
A combination of tortoise-shell and metal, the one forming the ground and the other the pattern upon it, which may be classed as marquetryalso appears in the 17th century.
The "bureau du roi" is a large cylinder desk elaborately inlaid in marquetry of woods, and decorated with a wonderful and ornate series of mounts consisting of mouldings, plaques, vases and statuettes of gilt bronze cast and chased.
Bureaus and important pieces had birds and flowers and trees or feather marquetry after fine Dutch models.
The early examples with cases exhibiting fine marquetryare outside the scope of the class of furniture now under consideration.
Dutch was in fashion, the cases were ornamented with marquetry in beautiful patterns and variously coloured woods.
They do not show very plainly in the illustration, which also does not do justice to the splendid marquetry with which the mahogany case is inlaid.
Of later manufacture were pieces of rich marquetryin vari-coloured exotic woods upon mahogany.
Most of it, when used as the wood of the entire piece, is decorated with medallions of marquetry of some darker wood, as tulip, rosewood, or mahogany.
Among the other great workers of this period were Oeben, whose marquetry in coloured woods was of extreme elegance, and Riesener, who began to execute his beautiful pieces of furniture under Louis XV.
Marquetry was no longer considered good taste, and David the painter was largely responsible for much of the theatrical effect which was noted both in costume and household belongings.
Her chairs with silver lace may have well been like the handsome pair ofmarquetry ones shown in Figure 13.
The inlay of wood has been called marquetry and intarsia, and was used principally on furniture and choir stalls.
Inlay was often imitated; the elaborate marquetrycabinets in Sta.
After the Renaissance marquetry ran riot in France, but that is out of the province of our present study.
Among the treasures was a beautiful chest of marquetry bearing the coat-of-arms quartered; it was a marriage-gift.
The colouring and the elegant regularity of the outer wrapper of the cocoon suggest some kind of basket-work made with tiny bits of bamboo, or a marquetry of exotic granules.
With her droppings she fashions masterpieces of marquetry and mosaic, which wholly conceal their base origin from the onlooker.
I did my writing, for the most part, in the morning, working at the Dutch marquetrybureau from ten o'clock until shortly after noon.
The method now practised in using marquetry to decorate furniture is very similar to the one explained in the description of "Boule" furniture given in Chapter VI.
Ivory, both of the hippopotamus and elephant, was used for inlaying, as also were glass pastes; and specimens of marquetry are not uncommon.
Marquetry became the fashion under William and Mary, when upright clocks, bureaux, and chairs were thus decorated.
He was chief upholsterer to the king, and his rich and brilliant marquetry of tortoise-shell and brass, so combined as to form figures and subjects, was extensively used in the furnishing of the new palace at Versailles.
The discovery of Pompeii caused a return to a simpler style of decoration, to purer forms; and marquetry furniture was manufactured in exotic woods, enriched with ormolu mountings.
Before leaving this period of French furniture, when so much marquetry work was done of unsurpassed beauty and of unrivalled technique, a word may be said as to the number of woods used.
In boule-work all parts of the marquetry are held down by glue to the bed, usually of oak, the metal being occasionally fastened down by small brass pins, which are hammered flat and chased over so as to be imperceptible.
A method of using thin layers of wood and laying them on a piece of furniture, either as marquetry in different colours, or in one wood only.
In order to economise the material, Boule, when his marquetry became in demand, employed a process which led to the use of the technical terms, boule and counter-boule.
This inlay is very coarsely done, and unworthy to compare with Italian marquetry of contemporary date, or of an earlier period.
Dutch marquetry cabinets on stands, with straight uprights, were imported and became a feature in the early eighteenth century drawing-room (see illustration, p.
The original, which is at the Louvre, is in marquetry of various coloured woods and adorned by plaques of gilt bronze, cast and chased.
A special form ofmarquetry of brass and tortoiseshell perfected by Andre Charles Boule in the reign of Louis XIV.
The later Italian marquetry does not lose decorative effect though the figure drawing becomes very conventional, and the curves of ornament are often cut with a mechanical sweep.
Notwithstanding the beauty of much of the marquetry of the periods of Louis XIV.
Marquetry was produced in Florence, Venice, Milan, and Genoa down to a still later date, but the fashion for ivory and ebony carried all before it.
At Burgos is a pulpit decorated with inlay as well as carving, and one of the most elaborate works of marquetry of comparatively modern times is Spanish.
It is advisable after the marquetry has been put together to reduce the surface to a level and do something in the way of polishing, though it is not necessary to carry the process as far as is often done by the cheap furniture manufacturers.
Plate XXX] [Illustration: Plate XXXI--QUEEN ANNE CHAIR With marquetry back and carved cabriole leg with hoof and serpentine stretcher Courtesy of P.
From one such entry we learn that the Archdeacon, in 1811, paid two guineas for a marquetry picture of the Minster, now the property of his grandson, Colonel Strong.
One was Corporal Jean De la Porte, whose name appears as the maker of signed straw marquetry pictures, and to whom are attributed many other unsigned pictures of the same character.
It is said that a memorandum exists in a private diary that the price paid for a picture of straw marquetry of Peterborough Cathedral was only £2; the picture must have taken weeks to construct.
In its subsequent development marquetry left the inlaying, piece by piece, and as tools became more perfect easier methods were employed.
We illustrate two examples of marquetrychests of drawers of the William and Mary period which offer many interesting features.
Earlier, as we have seen, walnut was laid as a ground on oak and the marquetry design laid on the walnut.
The un-English marquetrybecame acclimatized, and later, as we shall show, the equally un-English lac became a fashion.
In later types the feet are more pronounced, and the base has an ornamental panel in the Sheraton period with a delicate marquetry inlay of simple character.
A Hungarian violin, made in Presburg, inlaid with marquetry of various coloured woods.
In cutting out the forms required for marquetry decoration, one, two, or more thicknesses of thin wood are gummed or pasted together, according to the pattern required.
There remains nothing but to rough the surface of the furniture, and to lay down the marquetry on it, precisely as in the case of plain veneering.
The materials principally in use, however, in Boulle marquetry are tortoiseshell and brass.
If soaked, the grain of the wood would push up the thin veneer, no doubt, but this is no greater risk than that to which all marquetry is exposed.
A little sawdust from the woods used, and a very small quantity of glue, join the edges and fill up the fine openings made by the saw; and in this way the whole surface of the marquetryis laid down on paper.
In many fine pieces of marquetry there are, as in the case of a cabinet or table, portions of the surface entirely occupied by quiet reticulated patterns.
These two processes are distinct, but marquetry furniture has often portions decorated with inlaying, as also carved ornaments and decorations of beaten, cast, or chiselled metal-work.
The impressed marquetry has been mentioned, but as yet nothing really new has been done by the use of machinery.
Auguste, sitting on a tapestried chair at a marquetry table with brass trimmings, was reading a book by the light of the candelabra on the chimney piece.
By the sick woman's pillow was a very prettymarquetry table, on which were the various articles necessary to this bedridden life.
I have just been examining a piece of marquetry two hundred and fifty years old.
The lines of leaves and flowers, and a hundred other details, look best in marquetry when they are executed in this manner.
Venetian Marquetry is a very perfect imitation of this, not to be distinguished from the sawed-out patterns.
Do not expect to make a perfect piece of marquetry at a first effort.
Much of the old marquetrywas made of white wood stained with dyes.
And by this the reader may learn that Venetian marquetry is really capable of producing great artistic results.
The second kind of marquetry is made with a fret, or "jig," or scroll saw.
The third kind of marquetry is made with veneers, which are sheets of wood almost as thin as paper, and as the process of making it is rather difficult for amateurs, I shall not describe it here.
Venetian, or solid, marquetrymay be applied with the aid of stencils, to large surfaces, such as the panels of doors, and dados.
There is a piece of Venetian marquetryin the South Kensington Museum, London, which was presented by the last Doge of Venice to Sir Richard Worsely.
In answer, she turned, hobbled to a tiny marquetry table, and tossed the note down upon it, unopened.
Dissatisfied, I turned from the table, not noticing for more than an instant a little crumpled roll of paper which, as I was vaguely conscious, now appeared on its smooth marquetry top.
Marquetry was also used on the mirror-frames of this period, an example in a broad frame inlaid with a floral pattern being shown in Fig.
The table with the marquetry top and "tied" stretcher is of the period.
The marquetrydesigns of vases and flowers are also of Dutch type.
We also find the same schemes in marquetry work, as in the chests of drawers, cabinets, and clock-cases showing Continental influences.
Museum piece of the same period, the marquetry work on which is very fine--the top being most elaborately inlaid.
English style of delicate geometrical marquetry work, dating from about 1700.
The oblong panel decorations consist of marquetrydesigns of conventional flowers in ebony, holly, rose, and laburnum woods.
Marquetry of the rock floor of the Tonapah Mining District, Nevada (after Spurr).
Marquetry of the rock floor in the Tonopah district, Nevada 79 72.
Marquetry and lacquer were both in great favor, and there are wonderful examples of both reproduced, but especially lacquer.
Inlay and marquetry came to be generously used, but there had been many cabinets of Dutch marquetry brought to England even before the time of William and Mary.
Marquetry died out and gave place to carving, and the cabriole leg, one of the chief marks of Dutch influence, became a firmly fixed style.
There was much beautiful marquetry used; in fact it is a marked characteristic of much of the furniture of William and Mary.
In marquetry the entire surface of the article is covered with pieces of different colored woods cut very thin and glued on.
Although marquetry and inlay have much in common there is one great difference between them, and they should not be used as synonymous terms.
The marquetry clocks made at this time are wonderful and characteristic examples of the work, and are among the finest clocks ever made for beauty of line and finish, and proportion.
Old French marquetry was exquisitely delicate in color and design, while Italian inlaying of the same period, though coarser, was admirable in composition.
English marquetry suffered from the poverty of ornament marking the wall-decoration of the period.
It is of fair size; wood heavy, hard, and of a deep purple color not fast to light; used in marquetry embellishment of Louis XV furniture, and still popular in fine furniture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marquetry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
