An exquisitely crafted Mysore Inlay elephant curio.A beautiful craft technique, Mysore rosewood inlay covers a range of techniques used by artisans in around the area of Mysore, inserting pieces of contrasting materials like shell, mother-of-pearl, horn, sandalwood or acrylic into depressions in a rosewood object. Rosewood is procured from the forested areas around Mysore. The wood is then painstakingly worked on by inlay artisans in a laborious process, fixing the inlay material into the pre-etched grooves creating these impeccable works of art, that look almost the same as Ivory.