# Gadrooning

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{{Short description|Decorative pattern formed of a series of convex ridges}}
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[[File:Dish from the Swan Service, 1738, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, modeled by Johann Joachim Kandler and Friedrich Eberlein - Art Institute of Chicago - DSC00006.JPG|thumb|280px|Plate with gadrooned background from the [Meissen porcelain](/source/Meissen_porcelain) [Swan Service](/source/Swan_Service), ca. 1738]]
'''Gadrooning''' is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in [relief](/source/relief) in a series. In furniture and other [decorative arts](/source/decorative_arts), it is an ornamental carved band of tapered, curving and sometimes alternating concave and convex sections, usually diverging obliquely either side of a central point, often with rounded ends vaguely reminiscent of flower petals. Gadrooning, derived from [Roman](/source/Roman_art) [sarcophagi](/source/Sarcophagus) and other antiquities, was widely used during the [Italian Renaissance](/source/Italian_Renaissance), and in the classicising phases of 18th- and 19th-century design.

In medieval European metalwork, gadroons on circular dishes are often tapering, ending in a point on a central circular zone, and run diagonally across the surface in a spiral. Similar – but typically not tapered – designs were popular in [Rococo](/source/Rococo) [porcelain](/source/porcelain) and metalwork. In [Renaissance](/source/Renaissance_art) or [Neoclassical](/source/Neoclassicism) works, they are normally thinner and straighter.
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Gadrooning is also observed on late 17th and 18th century glasses. It is produced with a second gather of glass leading a complex and ornate design due to the added layer of glass.  In some cases the gadrooning has a fringe which is drawn out to several points, leading to a flame-like appearance. This is known as flammiform (flamiform, alternative spelling) gadrooning.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=Harold |title=An illustrated dictionary of glass |date=1977 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |isbn=0-500-23262-8 |location=London |pages=118, 128 |oclc=3723179}}</ref>

== Gallery ==

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three ornate vessels (2).jpg|Three [Renaissance](/source/Renaissance_art) goblets decorated with gadroonings, 1520-1525
Italian - Bowl - Walters 44203.jpg|Italian late 16th-century enameled copper footed bowl, with several registers of gadrooning ([Walters Art Museum](/source/Walters_Art_Museum))
Italian - "Cassone" - Walters 6535.jpg|Walnut [cassone](/source/cassone) in the form of an antique [sarcophagus](/source/sarcophagus), Rome, 16th century ([Walters Art Museum](/source/Walters_Art_Museum))
ATSF Holloware Creamer Dscn0985 crop.jpg|American railroad holloware creamer jug with gadrooning on the lower body, in [Regency taste](/source/Regency_architecture), early 20th century
gadrooned ale glass.jpg|A Georgian ale glass from the around the mid-18th century. It has wrythened gadrooning to the lower half of the bowl.
Gadrooned golden vase of Psusennes I.jpg|A golden vase of king [Psusennes I](/source/Psusennes_I) of Egypt from the 11th century BC
</gallery>

== See also ==
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* [greebling](/source/greebling)

==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708095930/http://www.brownowl.com/gloss_g.html BrownOwl's Antiques Glossary: Letter G]. Retrieved 29 August 2007.

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