1674 German Executioner's Sword with Engraved Foliate Decoration
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- Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
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