marquetry

mar·que·try

also mar·que·terie M0118900 (mär′kĭ-trē)n. pl. mar·que·tries also mar·que·teries Material, such as wood or ivory, inlaid piece by piece into a wood surface in an intricate design and veneered to another surface, especially of furniture, for decoration.

[French marqueterie, from Old French, from marqueter, to checker, from marque, mark, ultimately from Old Norse merki, mark; see merg- in Indo-European roots.]

marquetry

(ˈmɑːkɪtrɪ) or

marqueterie

n, pl -quetries or -queteries (Crafts) a pattern of inlaid veneers of wood, brass, ivory, etc, fitted together to form a picture or design, used chiefly as ornamentation in furniture. Compare parquetry[C16: from Old French, from marqueter to inlay, from marque mark¹]

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or mar•que•te•rie

(ˈmɑr kɪ tri)

n. inlaid work of variously colored woods or other materials forming a picture or pattern, esp. in furniture. [1555–65; < Middle French marqueterie inlaid work =marquet(er) to speckle, spot, inlay + -erie -ery]

marquetry

a form of decoration, often used in furniture-making, composed of inlays of wood veneers of different colors.See also: Ornamentation, Wood

marquetry

Colored or varnished woods, ivory, or other materials that are inlaid flush with the surface of an object.

Thesaurus

Noun

marquetry - inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furnituremarqueterieinlay - a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface

Translations

marqueterieintarsio

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marquetry

(mär`kətrē), branch of cabinetwork in which a decorative surface of wood or other substance is glued to an object on a single plane. Unlike inlaying, in which the secondary material is sunk into portions of a solid ground cut out to receive it, the technique of marquetry applies both field and pattern material as a veneer of equal thickness. Wood is most often used for the ground, or field, and to a considerable extent also—when of differing color, grain or kind—for the decorative sections. Tortoiseshell, metal, ivory, and bone are also used. The process was derived from the true wood inlay known as intarsiaintarsia
or tarsia,
properly a form of wood inlaying. The term is sometimes applied to inlays of other materials such as ivory and metal. It is differentiated from marquetry by the basic veneering process of the latter.
..... Click the link for more information. and reached a high point of development in its use by the Dutch in the 17th cent.; subsequently the French were its chief exponents, with the Boulle family (see Boulle, André CharlesBoulle or Buhl, André Charles
, 1642–1732, French cabinetmaker, the master of a distinctive style of furniture, much imitated, for which his name has become a synonym.
..... Click the link for more information. ) creating a distinctive style through the use of copper and tortoiseshell. Marquetry in England was never carried to the heights of elaboration or technical brilliance reached on the Continent, but in the latter part of the 18th cent. work of considerable distinction and refinement was produced.

Bibliography

See M. Campkin, The Technique of Marquetry (1989).

Marquetry

Inlaid pieces of a material, such as wood or ivory, fitted together and glued to a common background.

Marquetry

a type of mosaic consisting of irregularly shaped pieces of veneer that vary in color and texture and are affixed to a surface. Marquetry is used in furniture-making and in the manufacture of paneling and other wood products. The process was particularly popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in France and Germany.

REFERENCE

Meliksetian, A. S. Mozaika iz dereva. Moscow, 1969.

inlay, intarsia, marquetry

1. A shaped piece of one material embedded in another as part of a surface ornamentation. 2. Such ornamentation as a whole. Also see encaustic tile.

marquetry

marquetry Inlaid pieces of a material, such as wood or ivory, fitted together and glued to

marquetry

, marqueterie a pattern of inlaid veneers of wood, brass, ivory, etc., fitted together to form a picture or design, used chiefly as ornamentation in furniture
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Bibliography

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REFERENCE

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Synonyms for marquetry

noun inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture

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