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Definition of Marqueterie
1. Noun. Inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture.
Definition of Marqueterie
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marqueterie
Literary usage of Marqueterie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antique Furniture by Frederick William Burgess (1915)
"CHAPTER XX DECORATIVE marqueterie Intarsia—marqueterie—Italian work—Dutch and
German—French influence—English inlays and veneers. THE practice of enriching ..."
2. How to Collect Old Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (1904)
"... William Chambers and Thomas Chippendale— Difference between French and Dutch
designs and manufacture —Peculiarities of Dutch marqueterie—Descriptions of ..."
3. How to Collect Old Furniture by Frederick Litchfield (1904)
"... William Chambers and Thomas Chippendale— Difference between French and Dutch
designs and manufacture —Peculiarities of Dutch marqueterie—Descriptions of ..."
4. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"We went also to see, in the cellar of a merchant, a very beautiful mosaic in
black and white, without figures, but like marqueterie, very well done. ..."
5. The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner Callahan Teall (1920)
"CHAPTER XXI STRAW marqueterie ON traveling to the Adriatic coast some years ago,
I stopped for several days in a little Italian town not far from Ancona. ..."
6. Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield (1899)
"The marqueterie is attributed to Riesener, but from its treatment being so
different from that which, as an almost invariable rule, he adopted, ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... colour is decorated by inlaying with others of different colours: to this kind
of | inlaying the French term marqueterie is now gene- | rally applied. ..."
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