Hinges and lock escutcheons and handles to drawers must not be neglected in order to acquire a sound working knowledge of the peculiarities of the different periods.
The handles, locks, and escutcheons of the two drawers are old, but the hinges above are modern copies of old designs, and the handles of the cupboards are modern replicas.
These escutcheonswere probably tinctured by means of enamel.
Escutcheons were the Arms of France, encompass’d within the Garter of St. George, and Collar of St. Michael.
Quarterings, as appears from the Escutcheons of Hugh, Lord Burnel, who died 9 Hen.
Escutcheons and Stiles, to be set on the back of each Knight-Companion’s Stall, if the Feast be held elsewhere than at Windsor.
As to the Practice and constant Usage of setting up Escutcheons of Arms, since Anno 3 Edward VI.
The city of Norwich is not officially recognised as having the right to supporters, and doubtless those in use have originated in the old artistic custom, previously referred to, of putting escutcheons of arms under the guardianship of angels.
Consequently, if more than one wife be an heiress, separate escutcheons should be used for each marriage.
In Germany the wands of the heralds were later painted with the colours of the escutcheons of the Sovereign to whom they were attached.
Some people, notably in the early part of the nineteenth century, adopted the practice of placing war medals below the escutcheons amongst other decorations.
Brittany to a "quarter ermine" upon more elaborate escutcheons (Fig.
Though much mutilated, the design was preserved, and the heraldic escutcheons (which were uninjured) show it to have been erected to the memory of Sir John Pakington, Kt.
At her feet are six sons and four daughters; and surrounding her, are six escutcheons of the Cobham arms and alliances.
Two votive escutcheons with inscriptions, which he had set up at his residence near the sacred precincts, provoked a still more violent storm.
The frieze is decorated also, at intervals, by theescutcheons of Don Pedro and of Ferdinand and Isabella, and by the well-known devices of Charles V.
On the tympanum of the arch is displayed the Spanish coat of arms in white marble, flanked by the escutcheons of the inevitable and ubiquitous Ferdinand and Isabella.
At the angles of the tomb are seated figures, and the sides are sculptured with medallions and escutcheons and the figures of angels and saints.
The ceilings are finely worked into compartments with escutcheonsand pendants.
Encircling all the panels was a wide border containing escutcheons in which were woven other verses.
The eight escutcheons alternate in crimson and blue, and have arabesques and Chinese ducks.
These escutcheons are unmistakably diverse from either of the others; gradations, from first to eighth orders, the same.
BULLS have escutcheons of the same shape as the cows, but on a smaller scale.
Each class of cows has a kind called bastards, among those whose escutcheons would otherwise indicate the first order of their class: these often deceive the most practised eye.
This and the previous example bear the brass drop handles and fretted escutcheons of the period.
The fretted escutcheons and cusped handles (unfortunately not quite uniform) are exceptionally good.
Cut in stone escutcheons in the ceiling of this stairway are the intertwined initials of the brand-new nobility that built it.
All along the walls the escutcheons of the noble visitors of days gone by decorate the quaint old room and every modern visitor admires them duly, especially that of the valiant but unhappy seafarer.
On much furniture, particularly that enriched with inlay, ivory escutcheons were used, and sometimes those of holly or other wood used in the inlay were set in.
The escutcheons were at proportionate prices, eleven and eight shillings a dozen, but locks came high, a fine-ward desk-lock bringing a guinea.
The shape of these handles and escutcheons is known as willow, and appears later in a much more ornate form.
They partake, in their delicacy, of the metal work of the previous century, particularly the escutcheons and the groups of flowers and musical instruments which are on the tops of the side pillars.
Ivory escutcheons cost 10d each, and those of holly just half that.
Besides these brasses of English manufacture, we find another merchant advertising "three dozen Dutch rings and escutcheons at three shillings a dozen.
The escutcheons were similar, and the material of the drops on some chests of drawers was iron, but brass was more commonly seen, and was either hollow or solid.
None of the furniture made in America and little that was imported here, had the superb handles and escutcheons which were put on French and Dutch pieces.
The escutcheons and handles are original, and the only defect is the loss of the two ornaments which decorated either side of the top.
The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
The mottoes of our escutcheons go very well together.
His deserts are the deserts of sin, and therefore the escutcheons of honour that he has, are only that he died without honour, 'and at his end became a fool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escutcheons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
