A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 553
s shieldas employed at any epoch ; but, in the neoclassicart of the seveuteentii and eighteenth ciuituries,it is often an oval and sometimes surrounded byscrollwork, while the escutcheon borne by womenis lozenge-shaped. Tiie charges should beapplied to the escutcheon in colour; but it hasbeen… … Esi-oRiAL. (See Plan.) relief from the surface or field of the escutehcon,— a relief only sutiieieiit to cast a slight shadowat its edge. (See Anns.) B. By extension, from the above definition, asmall jJate or the like, generally of metal andmore or less ornamental, used for many specificpurposes ;…
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