the front cover of Finding and Naming Thomas Chippendale’s Marquetry Team features a painting by Swedish artist Elias Martin that now hangs in the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. It was painted by Martin (the nephew of the Anglo-Swedish cabinetmaker Georg Haupt) while in London c.1768-71. It shows two inlayers – one using a fretsaw at a bench, the other setting the veneers with a knife and hammer into a tabletop.
Jack Metcalfe has completed a number of projects reproducing Chippendale marquetry.
A specialist in 18th century marquetry believes he has identif ied the craftsmen responsible for the inlaid decoration on some of the finest English furniture.