Nonheraldic personal seals displayed a variety of devices, such as stars, fleurs-de-lis, armorials, and religious subjects.
One of the duties conferred on William Bruges (or Brydges), the first Garter Principal King of Arms was to survey and record the armorial bearings and pedigrees of those using coats of arms and correct irregularities.
He sells works from the 17th and 18th centuries, including armorial, blue and white, famille verte, famille rose and Chinese Imari.
Meantime the agitation of the Spaniard had a little loosened the bunting from around him, so that one broad fold swept curtain-like over the chair-arm to the floor, revealing, amid a profusion of armorial bars and ground-colour — black, blue and yellow — a closed castle in a blood-red field diagonal with a lion rampant in a white.
The final step is to prepare the letters patent, the official notice of an award of arms, which includes a drawing of the armorial bearings and the accompanying legal text and explanation of the symbolism of the bearings.
Mrs. Gordon developed a passion for it after she and her husband, Horace W. Gordon, bought an armorial plate and platter in 1944.
Newsome, layering and comparing the power of an armorial shield and a golden chain, withholds judgment to revel in the grandeur of both.
Armorial panels and inscriptions from the ancient castle were preserved and set into an octagonal tower.
It is the only ship where any crew is visible, in this case rowers behind pavisades as protection from enemy arrows and an overseer wearing "a bonnet, full skirted armorial doublet and baggy breeches" holding a stick or baton, as if beating the time of the strokes of the rowers.
