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This stunning picasso jasper intarsia hangs from over 19 inches of picasso jasper beads of various sizes.

The intarsia bead is 45mm in length.

Wikipedia says intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The term is also used for a similar technique used with small, highly polished stones. The technique of intarsia inlays sections of stone (at times with contrasting ivory or bone) within the solid matrix. The technique of intarsia is believed to have been introduced into Europe through Sicily, the art was perfected in Siena and in northern Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, spreading to German centers and introduced into London by Flemish craftsmen in the later sixteenth century. After about 1620, marquetry tended to supplant intarsia in urbane work.

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