central rosette, the fans inthe corners, and the inner border are first built up of littlepieces and then put into their place. The geometric pattern-work introduced in this way into Italian intarsia was actuallythe outcome of a process existent to this day in what is knownas Tonbridge ware. Long… … 57. ITALIAN INLAY MORE OR LESS MECHANICALLY DONE. checqucr), and the mass has only to be cut in shoes across to givethin slabs of diaper, which the marquetry worker uses as if theywere pieces of simple veneer. The Italian work of the fifteenthand sixteenth centuries shows by contrast what very poor…
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