Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also, three Bellinis. three Titians, three Fragonards, three Gainsboroughs, a room full of authenticated Chippendale furniture and an inlaid table of Marie Antoinette...
...most successful character portrayals in early African art, the princess portrait breaks away from the traditional stylization of features, revealing great artistic skill and knowledge of anatomy. A cap of coral beads, with long pendants on either side, tops the head. The eyes are delicately inlaid with iron...
They arrived in Rotterdam in time to see Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina seize a hatchet of steel inlaid with gold, and sever with one blow the launching rope of the largest liner The Netherlands have built, the 33,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam slated to maiden-voyage to Manhattan in the Spring...
...dripping with blood and buzzing up & down like a sewing machine, it is the spectacle of Leslie Howard in 18th Century coattails, making gestures of polite affection toward Merle Oberon. The Scarlet Pimpernel, derived from Baroness Orczy's famed best-seller (3,000,000 copies), contains both, picturesquely inlaid against an Alexander Korda background of tumbrels, old inns, the coffee rooms at Black's Club and Citizen Robespierre, snarling in falsetto...
...even more blatant forger was discovered in Paris fortnight ago in the person of Professor Andre Mailfert. For years he has lectured about the so-called ''Loire School" of 18th Century provincial furniture of inlaid lemon wood. Its leader, he said, was a certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only...