craquelure

• A little bit of craquelure is absolutely acceptable and gives you a feeling of comfort that it's original. —  Apartment Therapy Main
• Impressive, too, are the larger paintings that layer streaks, splatter, and a kind of artificial craquelure on top of —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
• It was the robot, the one he'd given her, the pretty thing with the Dutch Master craquelure up its tuna-can skirts. —  Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
• Documentary evidence is what he prefers; but, failing that, he will put up with a cunning concoction of dates and watermarks, cabalistic signatures, craquelure, patina, chemical properties of paint and medium, paper and canvas, all sorts of collateral evidence, historical and biographical, and racy tricks of brush or pen. —  Art
• Temple Cone, "Spring Covenant": "When the grackle soul rends its metal / Read-a-leak, read-a-leak / / And the bleb of sun casts chill / Through the craquelure of hickory," —  WhimsyLand

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