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sentences.text: A large table decorated in the same manner would have been placed in front for working with those papers.
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sentences.text: Access to the cartonnier's lower half can only be gained by the doors at the sides, because the table would have blocked the front.
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sentences.text: The painted black-and-gold decoration is commonly known as vernis Martin, named after the Martin brothers, Parisians who excelled at the craft of imitating Japanese lacquer.
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sentences.text: Their workshop probably also supplied the bronze Chinese figures on each side of and above the clock.
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text: This piece of mid-eighteenth-century furniture was meant to be used like a modern filing cabinet; papers were placed in leather-fronted cardboard boxes (now missing) that were fitted into the open shelves. A large table decorated in the same manner would have been placed in front for working with those papers. Access to the cartonnier's lower half can only be gained by the doors at the sides, because the table would have blocked the front. The painted black-and-gold decoration is commonly known as vernis Martin, named after the Martin brothers, Parisians who excelled at the craft of imitating Japanese lacquer. Their workshop probably also supplied the bronze Chinese figures on each side of and above the clock.