Antique Shields

A charming and unusual 19th-century French fireside table, or table-écran, featuring a retractable hand-painted screen designed to shield the face from the heat of a fireplace. The ...

The left one wears a gold crown and a fur cloak, rests a long staff on the ground and holds a round shield rimmed in gold. The right one wears a gold crown on a helmet with a yellow ...

The lower image shows two crusaders in full mail with red crested helmets and yellow trimmed hems, the left one shouldering a crescent bladed axe, the right one with a hand on his ch...

The upper image reproduces a fragment of carved relief in warm stone tones: two Roman soldiers stand side by side, each in a helmet with cheek guards, a cuirass of overlapping bands ...

NOTES: * Britannia Silver - The Britannia silver standard of 958 (95.84% of fine silver), denoted by the icon of the seated Britannia holding an oval shield, was introduced by Willia...

The high back is filled with rows of small tracery panels and a few figure reliefs, the side posts carry standing saints in niches, and the chest-like seat front has tracery panels a...

The enclosed upper stage carries relief panels, one with a crowned shield bearing a double-headed eagle between two rearing beasts, another with putti around a vase.

The first, from Cologne, has a great scrolled upper outline with foliage bosses, a standing figure holding a shield with a cross above a crouching figure on the post, a nude figure a...

At its center the Virgin stands holding the Child beneath a canopy, with a shield charged with a fleur de lis below her. To the left a hooded saint holds a key and to the right anoth...

The armored figure, sword raised and a shield bearing an eagle on his arm, stands against the massive stone corner of the building, while beside him a carved oriel window with a poin...

Behind the dog, in deep shadow, hangs a dark helmet with a raised visor and a sweeping plume, and a curved shape suggests a shield or further pieces of armor against the wall.

The armored figure of Roland, sword in hand and shield on his breast, stands against the corner of the Gothic town hall at left.

The reverse bears a distinctive shield-shaped hallmark containing an “A” above “14K.”

The Latin motto sits beneath a monochrome armorial crest displaying a shield with black and white chevrons. Above sits a knight’s helmet with what appears to be a lion’s paw reaching...

The second sheet reproduces a trophy of French arms of the reign: two full suits of plate armor, one with a crimson tabard sewn with fleurs de lis, a plumed royal helmet, a round shi...

The second sheet reproduces a tapestry design for Georges d'Amboise, cardinal and chief minister of Louis XII: two kneeling angels hold his striped shield under a red cardinal's hat,...

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In his right hand he holds a long spear with a leaf-shaped point, and his left hand rests on the top of a tall, narrow shield decorated with spirals, which stands on the ground besid...

Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields stand at the top of the sheet, with Sunderland, Seaham and Hartlepool down the North Sea coast, where a compass rose is drawn in the open sea.

One raised hand grips a serpent, another holds a round shield, and a lower arm rests on the head of a bull at the left.

Direct from France, a substantial and highly carved antique coat of arms, featuring bold Renaissance and Gothic designs, created in an era when wealthy families commissioned master w...

The openwork brooch has a shield-like form with finely engraved foliate and geometric decoration throughout.

* Britannia Silver - The Britannia silver standard of 958 (95.84% of fine silver), denoted by the icon of the seated Britannia holding an oval shield, was introduced by William III...

Old print of a crossbowman and a man with a pavise (shield). This print originates from 'A critical inquiry into antient armour as it existed in Europe (..)' by Sir Samuel Rush Meyri...

At the left a cavalryman in pale blue gallops away on a brown horse, carrying a white and blue striped standard with a red eagle on a shield and an eagle on the pole. Beyond him lies...

At the foot two medals share one black ribbon edged in white and light blue: a gold medal (33) with a uniformed bust of Maximilian Joseph, and a silver medal (34) with a crowned lion...

A decorative brass ridged handle runs along the lid's peak, offering both functional lift and ornamental detail, while a shield-shaped brass keyhole escutcheon on the front carries a...

Plate 20 shows the holly fern, Polystichum lonchitis, above the hard shield fern, Polystichum aculeatum, both drawn springing from their scaly brown crowns, the narrow toothed fronds...

The bouillotte shade arrangement derives from lamps used around French gaming tables, shielding the eyes while illuminating the playing surface.

The removable lid is crowned by a particularly striking rampant lion holding a shield, adding a heraldic character to the piece.

Above the view, the emblem vignette shows a shield bearing a ship, supported by two rearing horses, with an eagle above and a ribbon lettered "VIRTUE LIBERTY & INDEPENDENCE".

Above the view, the emblem vignette shows a seated woman holding a staff topped by a cap, beside an eagle and an oval shield lettered "GEORGE WASHINGTON" around a laurel wreath.

The upper image shows a monumental gateway of rusticated stone blocks framed by two columns with Corinthian capitals, with another column behind; a file of barefoot soldiers in crest...

In the upper image a tall timber siege tower on wheels stands against a brick city wall, its top crowded with fighting men and a gangway reaching across to the battlements; at left a...

In the lower image a bearded knight in armor, with a yellow surcoat patterned and marked with a black cross, holds a long sword upright and rests his hand on a red shield with a blac...

A standing courtier waits at the far left, another at the right raises a fly whisk, and a young boy holding a round shield stands at the lower right. A patterned wall and carpet fill...

A dense crowd of men in turbans and long robes stands with their backs to the viewer, some armed with swords and round shields, while a horseman watches from the left and a group of ...

At the left is a ring shaped flask on a round foot, its ochre body set with applied rosettes, lozenges and a shield bearing a rampant lion, with blue at the neck, handle and foot.

Around it are more spearmen, a figure seated at the right with a round shield, and a man under a parasol on the steps of a building at the left.

In the left foreground a group of armed men in turbans and long coats gathers around a seated figure, holding tall spears and carrying round shields, while further figures rest near ...

Its face is worked in relief with scrolled ornament rising from an urn, a central medallion of a horseman in a plumed helmet galloping with a shield, and winged sea creatures in the ...

The large square at the upper right is yellow on red, with radiating foliage, rosettes and small shields inside a circle and leafy corners. Below are a red and yellow roundel of fleu...

On the right a knight in a crowned great helm rides at the gallop with raised sword, his shield and the horse trapper powdered with fleurs de lis, within a legend that includes "FILI...

Design 4 fills the upper part of the sheet: a large square laid in yellow on brick red, with concentric rings enclosing four foliate roundels around a central cross, and small shield...

The well is a heavy round drum of dressed stone with a wooden winch and coiled rope, and above it rises a small octagonal well-house of timber with pointed Gothic openings, a steep c...

The park-like torcheres surmounted with later three-form metal Lumières with bakelite mounted shades emanating from scroll branches above foliate decorated tapered columns resting on...

The oval base is worked in relief with the head and upper body of a bearded warrior wearing a wrapped headdress, with a shield and other details visible behind him. Particularly inte...

This vintage gateleg drop-leaf table was made by the Imperial Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and carries the firm's printed paper label inside its single apron drawer: ...

The façade is further adorned with blonde shield-shaped, diamond-inlaid escutcheons and rests gracefully upon clean, straight, and tapered feet.

An escutcheon of pretence records just such a marriage to a heraldic heiress, the wife’s arms borne on a small shield at the center of her husband’s; through it the Knypersley estate...

Featuring four spacious drawers with beautifully figured walnut veneers, elegant lion’s head ring pulls, and classic shield-shaped key escutcheons, this chest reflects the understate...

Crimson borough washes mark Morpeth, Newcastle and the Tynemouth and North Shields group at the mouth of the Tyne, with Gateshead, Sunderland and part of Durham beyond the river.

The principal body is decorated with alternating shield-shaped panels set against a remarkably deep green enamel ground, which can appear nearly black under certain lighting conditio...

These antique chairs from France each feature softly scalloped crest rails over graceful lyre-shaped, open splat design backrests, with hand-painted heraldic shields accented by deli...

The lower portion of the incurved body is ornamented with embossed, convex fluted decoration below a contemporary bright cut engraved crest of a talbot sejant erect with a shield. ...

The top rail of one chair is carved with a full family coat of arms: a crested helmet above a shield held by two rampant lions, surrounded by scrolling foliage.

Figure 3 is a soldier in a cap and loincloth, otherwise bare, with a spear and an oval shield. Figures 4, 5 and 6 are statues: a man in cuirass and cloak with one arm raised, a young...

At top right is a collar section of gold chain linking two crowned blue shields, each with three crowns drawn on the blue, a gold sheaf at the center, and at each end a red and white...

At the center an arch of three openings is drawn in elevation, with Corinthian columns, a pediment over the central opening, friezes of arms and armor, spandrels heaped with shields ...

At the foot two dark medals with gold borders hang from a gold chain (12), one with the crowned cipher and one with a crowned shield of three lions among hearts, and a dark cross wit...