England (?)
16th century
Pot metal, white glass with silver stain, enamel, and abraded flashed glass
A: 58.0 x 42.5 (22 7/8 x 16 3/4); B: 58.0 x 42.0 (22 7/8 x 16 1/2); C: 59.0 x 41.5 (23 1/4 x 16 3/8)
Considerable deterioration in the blue enamels and the grisaille; restoration in the sinister arms of the right panel may have altered the blazon
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Bibliography: Unpublished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: east bay of dining room
A. Arms: Quarterly of eight, 1 or a lion rampant tenne, on a chief sable three escallops or, 2 azure a tower domed argent, 3 barry or and gules, in chief a crescent gules, 4 gules three fish hauriant argent, 5 chevrony sable and ermine, in canton a cross or, 6 sable a griffin rampant argent his tongue or, on the field three crosses crosslet £itchy argent, 7 sable three dovecots their roofs thatched argent, in chief a mullet or, 8 argent on a cross gules five mullets or, one at center and one on each arm; the whole impaling quarterly r and 4 or a cross vert, 2 argent a bend wavy sable cotised wavy sable, 3 barry ermine and gules (In a different order the dexter arms of this armorial appear in panel A of the four heraldic ovals in the entrance hall at Coe Hall.); B. Arms: The dexter as in the dexter of A; impaling quarterly of eight, 1 argent, on a chief gules two mullets tenne, 2 argent a fess gules, on the field three cinquefoils tenne, 3 sable a fess argent cotised or, on the field six birds or, 4 ermine on a fess azure three crosses paty or, 5 gules on a fess or a mullet sable, on the field three birds or, 6 argent a fess sable, on the field three crescents tenne, 7 paly argent and azure, on a bend tenne three eagles displayed or, 8 or four bars gemelles, on a chief or a lion passant tenne; C. Arms: Per pale, party of three and coupe of three, 1 tenne three lions rampant argent crowned or, 2 barry argent and azure, on a chief argent three bezants or, 3 or a maunche tenne, 4 tenne three lion’s heads guardant or crowned with fleurs-de-lis couped or, 5 or two chevrons tenne within a bordure tenne, 6 tenne an eagle displayed argent within a bordure argent, 7 cheeky argent and tenne, 8 argent a fess cotised tenne, 9 tenne a fess or, in the field three cross crosslets or, 10 cheeky or and azure a chevron ermine, 11 tenne crusily paty (or?) a chevron argent, 12 tenne a lion passant argent crowned or, 13 argent a saltire engrailed tenne, 14 or a lion rampant tenne, 15 tenne three lions passant or within a bordure argent, 16 or two bars gemelles tenne, in chief three bezants or; the whole impaling quarterly, 1 argent six crosses crosslet fitchy sable, on a chief azure two mullets or pierced gules (the second, third, and fourth quarters as in the sinister of A); Ornamental supporters for all three armorials a pair of berms bearing the mantling
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