In the Banchi he executed the escutcheon of Pope Leo, with three children, that seemed to be alive, so tender was their flesh.
In like manner, over another door that leads into the cloister of the Convent of the Servites, Rosso painted the escutcheon of Pope Leo, with two children; but it is now ruined.
There, among other details, are two children who serve to uphold an escutcheon in the ornamental border; and these are very fine, full of the greatest beauty and grace, and painted in a most lovely manner.
Filippo and of Our Lady painted by Andrea del Sarto, he executed between the two doors a very beautiful escutcheon of Pope Leo X.
Under the inscription a large escutcheon quarterly of eighteen:--1.
Studding the borders of the lights, interspersed among other ornaments, are the arms of Ferrers and Carminow, and a grand escutcheon similarly charged, and encircled with beautiful green-foliaged ornament occurs below.
At its end is the grand escutcheon of Willoughby de Eresby, with crescent for difference.
Commencing with these, the series of small shields round the tomb, numbering twenty-four in all, follow the same sequence as the corresponding number of quarterings on the escutcheon below them.
Defn: Having flanches; -- said of anescutcheon with those bearings.
Defn: Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress.
One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.
The surface of the escutcheonis called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.
Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.
Note: In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the side which would be on the left of the bearer of the shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder.
Defn: The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
Defn: In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.
Defn: The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
Fast behind it presses the well-known escutcheon of the seven golden balls, and the armed servants of the house of Medici sweeps down upon the combatants.
An escutcheonor ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.
The chanfron has the escutcheonof the Alvarez de Toledo family, the surname of the celebrated Duke of Alba, from whom possibly it might have come.
The Lord of Ajofrin wears laminated sollerets, and carries a sword of unusual length, with drooping quillons, and a shield or escutcheon on the pommel.
The escutcheon is said to have been brought from the neighbouring Sessions Court, and set up in the first instance in the choir, to commemorate the visit of Queen Anne, when she came to hear Dr.
On the east wall hangs an escutcheon of the arms of Queen Anne, with the motto Semper eadem.
And at that moment, against the wall at the head of the bed, Pierre perceived the escutcheon of the Boccaneras, embroidered in gold and coloured silks on a groundwork of violet velvet.
And to Pierre that escutcheonrecalled another memory, that of the portrait of Cassia Boccanera the /amorosa/ and avengeress who had flung herself into the Tiber with her brother Ercole and the corpse of her lover Flavio.
It may not have been completed till the time of his second son, unless the escutcheon with the balls and the Triregnum points to Leo X.
On the frieze is the Medicean device, the three feathers with the diamond ring and the motto Semper, on the arch the escutcheon of the Calimala guild, in relief.
In consideration of this the municipality made it a condition that the escutcheon of the lilies and the cross should be placed beside those of the guilds.
He died at Halifax, and was buried under the little old Dutch Church, in Brunswick Street, where his escutcheon and monument with armorial bearings are still to be seen.
There is, however, an escutcheon with the arms of Lawrence on the east gallery.
Lancets (a) The Virgin enthroned, and theescutcheon of Regnault de Mouçon, the bishop.
The arms of the Chapter, the chemisette of Notre-Dame, and the escutcheon of a dauphin will be noticed at the end of the last line.
Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).
At the summit of the whole work are two figures of marble, which support that lord's escutcheon of balls.
Most naturally the village innkeeper, therefore, chooses his master's escutcheon as a tavern sign.
Sometimes he decorates his moon tavern with the escutcheon of Austria and the imperial eagle; for instance, in a picture in Vienna.
We may remark here in passing that the linen drapers' guild in London had as its escutcheon the three angels of Abraham.
In France the escutcheon of the Bourbons, the fleur de lys, hangs over the tavern door, and in England the white horse of the royal House of Hanover.
In the middle of his breast showed the coat of arms belonging to his order, an escutcheon diapered with gold and gules, surmounted with a silver cross.
The white escutcheon of the home departmental flags was thus extended to the Union Jacks used in the colonies, and formed the new and first "colonial flag" (Pl.
A simple maple leaf on a whiteescutcheon would be infinitely preferable, for which see Appendix A and fig.
The Governors, High Commissioners or Administrators of British colonies and dependencies were afterwards authorized to place upon this white escutcheon on the Union Jack the arms or emblem of the colony in which they served.
It will be noted that the white escutcheon on the Jack is perfectly plain and without any special distinctive emblem, such as those worn on the escutcheons on the ordnance and other departmental flags.
Similar instructions were sent to the Governor of the colony of New York in 1709, and the flag is repeated with an escutcheon in the same form.
Ere she returned it, she had made herself mistress of the escutcheon as far as the mere working of it was concerned, as she proved to the satisfaction of the inventor.
That escutcheon is the best thing of the kind I have yet made,' he said.
The escutcheon of the lac cabinet is illustrated in detail as a tailpiece to this chapter to show the particular style of work found on the locks and hinges and drawer-handles of pieces of this nature.
It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheonon door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse.
The holy-water basin on the door- post, the escutcheon on the lintel above, the helmet, which would probably bear my weight.
Over all, on an escutcheon of the first, a jambe gules.
Over the door the travellers could discern the escutcheon of the Montacutes, a roebuck gules on a field argent, flanked on either side by smaller shields which bore the red roses of the veteran constable.
