a fleur-de-hs, probably representssome Italian family, notwithstanding the shielditself is not of Italian shape. Among other examples not yet referred to, fivecomprise representations of various birds, which,not being charged upon shields, are to be regardedas decorative rather than heraldic. Nos.… … others. In the subject of No. i—a late fifteenth-century dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum—the student of mediaeval natural history lore currentat the time when the work in question was pro-duced will have no difficulty in recognising thehoopoe. This bird, according to the passage trans-lated…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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