Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900) (14781389501)

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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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man, 16th century, (Pormenschatz). Ordinaries. (Plate 283.) Heraldic representations may be divided into Ordinaries, andCharges. The Ordinaries are the geometrical figures which are formedwhen the shield is divided into different fields by straight or curvedlines which extend to the margin of tbe shield. The number ofsuch figures is infinite. Plate 283 contains a collection of the ordi-naries which most commonly occur. We shall not discuss each figurein detail. The following blazoning or description of the figures onthe Plate will, no doubt, give the reader all he requires to knowThe blazoning begins from the upper dexter angle of each shield. Plate 283. The Ordinaries. . 1. Per pale, sable and or. 2. Paly of four, argent and sable. 3. Argent, the dexter tierce gules. 4. Gules, a pale or. 5. Argent, a pallet (narrower than a pal°) sable. 6. Per fesse, or and gules. 7. Barry of five, azure and argent. 8. Or, a chief azure. 9. Argent, a base gules.10. Argent, a base vert. HERALDRY. 507
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Shapes of the Shield. Plate 282. 508 Ordinaries. 11. Or, a fesse gules. 12. Argent, a barrulet sable. 13. Per pale; the dexter half argent, the sinister half per fesse azureand or. 14. Per fesse; the upper half per pale sable and gules, the lowerargent. 15. Quarterly, or and azure. 16. Cheeky of nine, vert and argent. 17. Cheeky of twenty, or and gules. 18. Quaiterly: the 1st and 4th per pale, argent and gules; the2nd and 3rd or. 19. Per fesse, gules and argent, a pale eounterehanged. 20. Per pale, barry of five, or and azure, eounterehanged. 21. Paly of six, argent and sable, a fesse eounterehanged. 22. Or, a cross gules. 23. Argent, a dexter canton sable. 24. Azure, a chief point vair. 25. Per bend, or and vert. 26. Per bend sinister, argent and azure. 27. Or, in the dexter chief a triangle sable. 28. Argent, in the sinister base a triangle gules. 29. Or, a bend gules. 30. Bendy sinister of six, azure and argent. 31. Per saltire, vert and argent. 32. Per bend, the dexter half argent