Inlay
（重定向自Inlaying）
![Bronze inlaid with silver: ceremonial flask, China, from the Warring States period, 3rd century BCE.](/Images/godic/202501/20/3rd_century_BC_Eastern_Zhou_bronze_and_silver_flask2616.jpg")
![Casket, early 18th century, attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle, oak carcass veneered with tortoiseshell, gilt copper, pewter, ebony. Art Institute of Chicago](/Images/godic/202501/20/Casket,_early_18th_century,_attributed_to_Andre-Charles_Boulle,_oak_carcass_veneered_with_tortoiseshell,_gilt_copper,_pewter,_ebony_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago_-_DSC097452616.JPG")
![Baroque altar frontal in pietra dura](/Images/godic/202501/20/Cathedral_Virgin_Mary-72616.jpg")
![](/Images/godic/202501/20/Inlay_work2616.jpg")
Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix. A great range of materials have been used both for the base or matrix and for the inlays inserted into it.