A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 336
of being set with pearls and gems. Ido not know by what authority, if any, its use has inmodern times been discontinued in favour of that nowemployed in England and Ireland. { 270 ) In the plate following the title of MAURICES Blasondes Armoiries des Chevaliers deTOrdre de la Toison aOr,1665, the… … Fig. 23.—Aems, Etc., ok Prince Putbus CHAPTER VIII. EXTERNAL ORNAMENTS. III.—SUPPORTERS. SUPPORTERS are figures of living creatures placed at theside, or sides, of an armorial shield, and appearing tosupport it. French writers make a distinction, givingthe name of Supports to animals, real or…
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