French Marquetry Enfilade Buffet with Marble Top

• Marquetry - In marquetry inlay, contrasting woods, and other materials such as ivory, shell and metal are inlaid either as panels or in a single continuous sheet over the surface of the piece. The design may be straightforward, such as a shell pattern or a basket of flowers, or it may be infinitely complex, with swirling tendrils of leaves, flowers and foliage, such as one finds, for example, in the "seaweed" patterns on longcase clocks of the William and Mary and Queen Anne periods.
• Enfilade - An enfilade buffet or sideboard is a long and low French buffet, usually with four doors or more, but without a back.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• cabinets, period or style - French, with marble top 220
• cabinets, type - buffets, French 303
• enfilade (low French sideboard) 74