“The porringer in Plate VIII, one of only four known English examples with relief-cast gadrooned decoration, has even finer decoration.”

“Fluted and gadrooned surfaces were common decorative finishes, as well as the chasing of floral and foliate motifs and mythological scenes.”

“In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares.”