England
1573
Pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel
39.5 x 28 (15 1/2 x 11)
Stopgaps in mantling and in lower part of fourth shield
Provenance: Roy Grosvenor Thomas, New York, to 1923; George G. Booth, Bloomfield Hills
Bibliography: Grosvenor Thomas Stock Book no. I, 48-49, item no. 665; unpublished
Collection: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)
Object/Accession: CEC-703
Arms: Quarterly of 8; 1 sable a lion passant guardant between three helms argent (Compton); 2 argent a fess engrailed between six billets gules (Aylworth); 3 argent a mullet or between to bars sable (Brereton); 4 gules a chevron between ten (?) crosslets argent within a border argent (Berkeley of Beverstone); 5 argent on a chevron sable three fleur-de-lis argent (Alfrey, Sussex or Wevell); 6 argent a chevron vert within a bordure azure plattee (Vannell); 7 argent on a saltire gules five estoiles argent (Beverstone); 8 argent a mullet or between two bars sable (Brereton); crest: helm with torse lined argent and gules; mantling gules lined argent
Inscription: Henricus Compton/ Dns Compton/ 1573