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Marquetry

LC control no.sh 85081411
LC classificationNK2710 Inlaid furniture
NK9920 NK9925 Woodwork decoration
TT192 Handicraft
Topical headingMarquetry
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Variant(s)Inlaying in wood
Intarsia
Marqueterie
Veneer craft
See alsoDecoration and ornament
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Found inLC data base, 6/1/90 (marquetry; Veneer craft)
2013419196: Reveles Ávila, M. del R. La marquetería de Guadalupe, 2009.
Merriam-Webster unabridged, via WWW, Nov. 1, 2013 (marquetry, also marqueterie: 1: a decorative process in which elaborate usually floral patterns are formed by the insertion of pieces of wood, shell, or ivory into a wood veneer that is then applied to the surface of a piece of furniture (as a table or cabinet); 2: an object decorated in marquetry)
OED, via WWW, Nov. 1, 2013 (entry: marquetry; other forms listed: marqueterie [and several others cited from sources dated between 1563 and 1850]; inlaid work in wood, ivory, etc., esp. as used for the decoration of furniture; some scholars reserve the term specifically for inlaid veneer work)