This work is great beyond my aspirations.
I first saw this type of art when I happened to visit the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have a study that was taken from a ducal palace in Italy - belonged to a 15th Century mercenary general who became a duke, and was also a man of science and letters.
It can be seen on the website (Google studiolo Gubbio), but the experience in the flesh is unbeatable. It is a difficult room to capture photographically, as it is quite small, and darkish.
It did not work when the curators first assembled it in the Museum, so somebody went to study its original locale in Italy. Turns out the artist had designed it for the very particular lighting that came through a smallish window, orientated in a particular way towards the sun, and facing a stone wall. When they rebuilt the installation and lit it in that way in the Museum, the 3-D results are spectacular. One stands in front of a flat panel, but keeps trying to get inside latticed cabinet doors, or tries to touch ledges and shelves. There is a dramatically realistic dentil moulding, which would only look 3-D with the light coming in at the angle it does, and the pattern changes subtly around the walls, to match the change in incident angle of the light.
In reality, the only 3-D is the coffered ceiling, and some raised gilt lettering - and even the latter is enhanced by tromp l'oiel.
Apparently it took a whole workshop of craftsmen years to make the piece. They used shoulder chisels to do the inlay - so called because of a long handle, which rested on the craftsman's shoulder, allowing the guiding hand to exert significant downwards pressure on the edge of the blade, while maintaining fine control. Technically, the technique is called intarsia - I am ignorant as to whether Scott's technique goes by the same name
I imagine that there are members here who would prefer to go to war, rather than go to NYC, but if you happen to be there and you have not seen the studiolo, I can wholeheartedly recommend it.