For your summer parties, you can enlist as help these two saucy crabs who are busy holding up this serving tray with a beautiful marquetry pattern and brass accents.

This Maitland Smith decorative tray has an Aged Regency finish, Tiger Penshell inlay, and Verdigris brass crab motif.

DETAILS:

• Measurements: 27" W x 7.5" H x 12" W
• Materials: Brass

MARQUETRY & PARQUETRY As highly regarded traditional furniture crafts, these handcrafted inlay processes began in Germany and Holland. In the hands of a trained artisan, shaped veneered wood or other suitable material is applied to a furniture frame, forming a mosaic-like pattern or image on the surface. Marquetry may be floral, or an arabesque, but it must be curvilinear. If the pattern is geometric, it is called parquetry. Both are traditional decorative techniques which add intrinsic value to fine furniture. By the 17th century marquetry in particular reached new heights of skill and innovation, and was prized by patrons of the era. The use of the process was further advanced by the importation of rare and exotic woods from around the world, unique to Western Europe