Precious STAR cufflinks - Handmade ebony and bone inlaid men cufflinks - gift idea for just $60.00 Precious hand inlaid cufflinks made using African ebony and thin bison bone sheet. You can choose the color of the metal finish between COPPER, AGED BRASS or SILVER. Don't miss the elegance and exclusivity of a handmade jewel. Elegant box and handmade certificate are included Modern technology such as CNC cutting and laser engrave combined with the traditions of "veneered marquetry" give life to these precious jewels ready for the most elegant and fashionable cuffs. The cufflinks are polished with beeswax without using paint or chemical solvents. This cufflinks are fully and proudly hand made in Italy Dimensions of the skull: 14,4 mm X 17,6 mm (0,56 X 0,68 iches) Looking for something else? Check this out: More cufflinks from our shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GothChicAccessories?section_id=13044363 -----------------------------------------------OOO-------------------------------------------- Something about Marquetry: The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence (and at Naples). Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing tortoiseshell and brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Boulle marquetry dropped out of favor in the 1720s, but was revived in the 1780s. In the decades between, carefully matched quarter-sawn veneers sawn from the same piece of timber were arranged symmetrically on case pieces and contrasted with gilt-bronze mounts. Floral marquetry came into favor in Parisian furniture in the 1750s, employed by cabinet-makers like Bernard van Risenbergh, Jean-Pierre Latz and Simon-François Oeben. The most famous royal French furniture veneered with marquetry are the pieces delivered by Jean Henri Riesener in the 1770s and 1780s. T...
