Antique Large French Vernis Martin Display Cabinet C1880 19th C

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Seller: regentantiquesuk ✉️ (2,920) 100%, Location: London N4 1BX, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 375215556978 Antique Large French Vernis Martin Display Cabinet C1880 19th C.

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Antique Large French Vernis Martin Display Cabinet C1880 19th C

A stunning antique Louis XV Revival French king wood Vernis Marten five panel display cabinet of extravagantly shaped serpentine form, Circa 1880 in date, with exquisite hand painted decoration and exquisite ormolu mounts.

There are five Vernis Martin panels with beautiful hand painted decoration, the central panel depicting a courting couple and the others with pastoral country scenes. The central panel bears the artists indistinct signature lower right, see photo.

With a
 central clear serpentine glazed door flanked by clear glazed bow panels with glazed serpentine panels on the sides with  a capacious cupboard in the bottom.

It is smothered in gorgeous gilded ormolu mounts, standing on cabriole legs, the patterned mint green silk lined interior is fitted with glass shelves to display your collection of china or silver beautifully.

This magnificent piece is in excellent condition and the quality and attention to detail throughout is second to none.

Add a touch of unparalleled style to your home.

 

Condition:

In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.

 

Dimensions in cm:

Height 190 x Width 115 x Depth 47

Dimensions in inches:

Height 6 foot, 3 inches x Width 3 foot, 9 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches


Vernis Martin
is a lustrous lacquer substitute widely used in the 18th century to decorate furniture and such personal articles as brisé fans,  snuffboxes and clocks. The process of adding bronze or gold powder to green varnish was perfected by the French brothers Guillaume and Etienne-Simon Martin, hence its name “Vernis Martin”, as Vernis is French for varnish. It is said to have been made by heating oil, copal and amber and then adding Venetian turpentine and the Martin brothers perfected the process with inclusions in the varnish, sprinkling spangles of silver plated copper wire into the wet varnish ground. Highly praised by Voltaire, it was developed to imitate East Asian lacquerware which was being imported into France during the Louis XV period. Vernis Martin was made in several colours, green, black and a golden red being the most characteristic.


Ormolu -  (from French 'or moulu', signifying ground or pounded gold) is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold  in a mercury  amalgam  to an object of bronze .The mercury is driven off in a kiln  leaving behind a gold-coloured veneer known as 'gilt bronze'.

The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding , in which a solution of nitrate of mercury  is applied to a piece of copper , brass , or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam  of gold and mercury. The item was then exposed to extreme heat until the mercury burned off and the gold remained, adhered to the metal object.

No true ormolu was produced in France after around 1830 because legislation had outlawed the use of mercury. Therefore, other techniques were used instead but nothing surpasses the original mercury-firing ormolu method for sheer beauty and richness of colour. Electroplating  is the most common modern technique. Ormolu techniques are essentially the same as those used on silver , to produce silver-gilt  (also known as vermeil ).

Our reference: A3707

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