Godronation
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A gadrooning (also Godron , from French. Goder pucker) is an ornamental surface or edge of ornament, be decorated in certain zones of a round vessel with radial, usually inclined, and curly, ending in a rounded ribs. The elongated humps on metalwork of the Renaissance, directed straight towards a central point, are also often named that way. Starting from the goldsmith's art , sometimes also transferred to other materials, gadronization was widespread from the 16th to the 18th century. In the metalwork Godrons are in contrast to the concave corrugation always convexly curved outward, wherein the basic shape of the inside driven is finer surface structures by but chasing can be incorporated from the outside. Simple rows of humps , egg stick motifs and simple folds are not referred to as godrons in handicrafts.