Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what is the real point of Salem, Miller makes mere wraiths and mouthpieces of his characters. The play is curiously unmoving; while its foreground story is even without sociological relevancy. Turning on a slut's purely malicious lie, it is a kind of primitive Children's Hour inlaid into the larger picture...
...middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...16th Century heyday, the Imperial and Royal Institute of the Pietra Dura (Hard Stone) was one of the busiest places in Florence. The duties of its craftsmen members: turning out the intricate designs of inlaid marble and semiprecious stones with which the Medici loved to decorate their palaces and chapels. After the Medici, the art, known as stone intarsia, went out of fashion; but a handful of institute members kept its difficult technique alive, occupied themselves mainly with repairing intarsia objects in Florentine museums and copying the old-fashioned designs...