seaweed marquetry

seaweed marquetry: noun
: marquetry of Italian origin in the form of conventionalized small-scale foliated or twining forms somewhat resembling seaweed and used especially in late 17th century England

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marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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