Chest Of Drawers, age of George I Oystering or oyster veneer is a decorative form of veneering, a type of parquetry.Oyster Veneer - Coloradostyle.com This technique is using thin slices of wood branches or roots cut in cross-section, usually from small branches of walnut, olive, kingwood and less commonly laburnum, yew and cocus. The resulting circular or oval pieces of veneer are laid side by side in furniture to produce various decorative patterns.Veneer terminilogy Because the shape formed resembles an oyster shell the technique acquired the name of oyster veneering.Antique termsOyster Veneer - Rau Antiques Detail of the chest History This technique is likely to have been developed by English cabinet-makers in the 1660s, immediately after the Restoration of the monarchy, first being used on furniture such as the cocuswood cabinet on stand which bears the cipher of Queen Henrietta Maria, constructed in c.1661-65, and now at Windsor Castle. Early oyster veneered cabinets were invariably in cocus or kingwood. Contemporary longcase clock cases were similarly veneered.
The oyster-like effect of yew wood cut across the grain Oystering or oyster veneer is a decorative form of veneering, a type of parquetry.Oyster Veneer - Coloradostyle.com This technique is using thin slices of wood branches or roots cut in cross-section, usually from small branches of walnut, olive, kingwood and less commonly laburnum, yew and cocus. The resulting circular or oval pieces of veneer are laid side by side in furniture to produce various decorative patterns.Veneer terminilogy Because the shape formed resembles an oyster shell the technique acquired the name of oyster veneering.Antique termsOyster Veneer - Rau Antiques History This technique is likely to have been developed by English cabinet-makers in the 1660s, immediately after the Restoration of the monarchy, first being used on furniture such as the cocuswood cabinet on stand which bears the cipher of Queen Henrietta Maria, constructed in c.1661-65, and now at Windsor Castle. Early oyster veneered cabinets were invariably in cocus or kingwood. Contemporary longcase clock cases were similarly veneered.
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Chest Of Drawers, age of George I
The oyster-like effect of yew wood cut across the grain
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Detail of the chest
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