Mirror with drawer, carved, made using the marquetry technique, dated to the first half of the 20th century. Marquetry is a wood decoration technique involving the inlaying of surfaces (furniture, paneling, floors, pictures) with patterns made from cut-out fragments of various types of wood (and sometimes also ivory, metal, mother of pearl), which are fitted and glued into a prepared base. This is not painting or carving – it is creating an image from the natural grain pattern, colors, and textures of different types of wood. The artist uses dozens, even hundreds of types of wood, which differ in color (from white (hornbeam, sycamore) through yellows (citrus), reds (cherry, padauk), browns (walnut, oak) to black (ebony)), hardness, and grain pattern. Each piece (veneer) must be perfectly matched to its neighbor – both in terms of shape and thickness. The layers are made from thin sheets of veneer, glued onto a stable base (e.g., plywood). The mirror panels are flanked by two small columns in the shape of a candelabra, topped with beading.