{"id":2990,"date":"2016-09-01T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2016-09-01T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:08:21","slug":"vernis-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernis Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vernis Martin<\/strong> – is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans.<\/p>\n

It was made by adding bronze or gold powder to green varnish to create the effect and the technique was perfected by the two French \u2018Martin\u2019 brothers hence the name \u2018vernis martin\u2019 or in English \u2018Martin varnish\u2019. <\/p>\n

It was originally developed to imitate East Asian lacquerware which was popular during the reign of Louis XV and the effect was so successful it was highly praised by Voltaire. It was made in several colours with green. black and a golden red being the most popular. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vernis Martin – is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made by adding bronze or gold powder to green varnish to create the effect and the technique was perfected by the two French \u2018Martin\u2019 brothers hence the name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makers-periods-styles-library"],"yoast_head":"\nVernis Martin - Regent Antiques<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vernis Martin - is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vernis Martin - Regent Antiques\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vernis Martin - is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Regent Antiques\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-01T13:08:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Siddhaling Bhogade\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Siddhaling Bhogade\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vernis Martin - Regent Antiques","description":"Vernis Martin - is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Vernis Martin - Regent Antiques","og_description":"Vernis Martin - is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/","og_site_name":"Regent Antiques","article_published_time":"2016-09-01T13:08:21+00:00","author":"Siddhaling Bhogade","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Siddhaling Bhogade","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/","url":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/","name":"Vernis Martin - Regent Antiques","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-09-01T13:08:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23ed733c3ca210c8c5367034685cab94"},"description":"Vernis Martin - is a substitute for lustrous lacquer. It was used widely in the 18th century to decorate clocks, snuff boxes and brise fans. It was made...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/vernis-martin\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vernis Martin"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/","name":"Regent Antiques","description":"One of the UK's premier antique furniture dealers","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23ed733c3ca210c8c5367034685cab94","name":"Siddhaling Bhogade","url":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/author\/siddh\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regentantiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}