England (?)
16th century
Pot metal, white glass with silver stain, enamel, and abraded flashed glass
C: 57.5 x 40.5 (22 5/8 x 16); D: 57.0 x 40.0 (22 1/2 x 15 3/3); A and B unmeasured
Considerable deterioration in the blue enamels and in the grisaille may have affected the accuracy of the blazoning
Provenance: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York; William Robertson Coe, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Bibliography: Unpublished
Collection: Planting Fields Foundation, Coe Hall (Oyster Bay, New York)
Object/Accession: entrance hall
A. Arms: Diapered or, on a chief gules three annulets ringed on each quarter; impaling quarterly of seven, r argent on a bend tenne three bezants sable, 2 sable a chevron argent, in chief and in base three ram’s heads argent, 3 vair en point azure and argent, 4 sable a griffin rampant, his tongue gold, the field goutte d’argent, 5 argent a saltire tenne, in the dexter and sinister and in base three eagles displayed (azure?), 6 argent three pairs of leaves slipped (bunches of grapes?) sable, 7 ermine a fess cheeky tenne and or; B. Arms: Quarterly of eight, 1 argent a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three escallops argent, 2 (azure?) a domed tower argent, 3 barry or and gules, in chief a crescent gules, 4 gules three fish hauriant argent, 5 chevrony sable and ermine, 6 sable a griffin rampant argent, in orle crosses crosslet argent, 7 sable three dovecots their roofs thatched argent, 8 argent on a cross gules five estoiles or, one at center and one on each arm (In a diff erent order these same arms appear in the dexter of panel A of the three heraldic ovals in the east bay of the dining room at Coe Hall.) C. Arms: Quarterly, in the first grand quarter, 1, 1 and 4 argent, 2 and 3 tenne (unidentified charges bendwise or), the whole surmounted by a fess (azure?), 2 argent a chevron sable, in chief and in base three eagle’s heads sable, 3 azure a lion rampant guardant (argent?), 4 gules in pile ten bezants or; in the second grand quarter, quarterly r bendy or and argent (azure?), 2 undy or and tenne, 3 argent a lion rampant sable crowned or, within a bordure (tincture uncertain) 4 argent semee garbs or a fess dancette or; in the third grand quarter, quarterly r azure a lion rampant, in orle crosses crosslet or, 2 gules three garbs or within a double tressure or, 3 azure a lion rampant argent crowned or, 4 argent three garbs or; in the fourth grand quarter, quarterly r gules seven mascules conjoined, 2 gules a cinquefoil argent, 3 quarterly gules and argent, in * canton an eagle displayed or, 4 azure three mullets or pierced gules; D. Arms: Per pale, quarterly r and 4 sable a lion rampant argent, in orle crosses crosslet, 2 argent on a chief gules between two buck’s heads caboshed or a bezant or, 3 gules a pair of wings conjoined in lure; the whole impaling arms as in the sinister of A
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