#escutcheon

[useless-catalanfacts]

Andorra's flag is the only national flag in the world with two cows. 🇦🇩

The central element in the flag is Andorra's coat of arms. It has been in use since the Middle Ages and was made official in 1969.

The coat of arms is divided in four quarters, each one with one of the symbols corresponding to one of the four traditional houses of the country: the co-prince Bishop of Urgell, the co-prince Count of Foix (nowadays President of France), the flag of Catalonia, and the Viscounts of Bearn. This last one is the one with the two cows.🐄🐄

The Viscounty of Bearn disappeared centuries ago, but its coat of arms survives in Andorra's.

#andorra #flag #flags #vexillology #vexillography #national flag #cow #cows #coat of arms #heraldic #escutcheon #bearn

[seetor]

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[gyroncraft]

felt like making a high fidelity version of the coat of arms featured in my castle build (taking some liberties with the blocky original :3 ) also made some versions of just the quarters. i'd blazon this if i knew how... i'm not so familiar with that part of heraldry yet

#heraldry #coat of arms #mineblr #escutcheon

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[mybuddyjimmy]

Escutcheon

View On WordPress

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[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Aqua ~

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[femblem-emblem-throuses-houses]

Coat of Arms of Loog, King of Lions

#the escutcheon shape was Going to be the lampos shield but fe3h shields are too hard to draw so i gave up #emblems that make adrestians very uncomfortable dot jpg #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #fe16 #fire emblem fanart #my art #heraldry #loog blaiddyd #war of the eagle and lion brainrot

[fromthedust]

Incanto Mettalum (Enchanting Metal)

Irish Connemara slate, circuit board, copper found object, brass found object, brass escutcheon pins, steel found object, cast brass, aluminum leaf

12¾"x 12¼"x 1¾"

This piece started out as a demo for a student who wanted to learn how to do mixed-media works. The floating circuit board was fitted over the recess cut into the slate. Then other demo pieces were done while this piece remained unfinished for over two years. When I finally returned to work on it a couple of weeks ago I thought I would add several different materials but as I worked on it I decided I would limit myself to metal elements only. I began selecting from my drawer full of metal found objects — part of an antique railroad lamp acquired  in 1997 which I had then partially patined 15 years ago, a piece of cable left over from the power company’s installation in my front yard of the underground electrical supply for the new 2021 house across the street, a piece of steel splatter from the welding table in the art school’s sculpture studio from 2005 or so, a wedge cut from the upper surface of a brass ingot I had cast from re-melted scrap miscut keys thirty-six years ago as a grad student — these were the elements finally used. The sandblasting and aluminum leaf were finishing touches before I had to figure out the title. After several hours of reading about the etymology of many words having to do with metal I narrowed it down to the Latin phrase that roughly translated to ‘the enchantment of metal.’     

The work is currently on exhibit in the 2022 Faculty and Staff Visual Art Exhibit at GSU Perimeter College art gallery through September.

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[singingkestrel]

Tenakth masks series, Pt. 1.

The Threshold to the Forbidden West.

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[nickthetoony]

Aerial custom where you give her the Nu Gundam’s fin funnel rack for maximum Bit Weapon power

#alternative #Nu Gundam Custom with the Escutcheon #gunpla

[namonamm]

[ID: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart done in black, white, and red. Kim Dokja's hand opens a thick book which is floating in space. The left page features the definition of the French phrase "mise en abyme" and its definition, "placement at the escutcheon's center : depiction of the escutcheon itself within an escutcheon : image within an image : story within a story", along with a description taken from Wikipedia.The other side shows a deep cut-out in the book which reveals that the book contains a room lined with books that a young, bandaged Kim Dokja is standing in. Young Kim Dokja clutches a book to his chest and looks up distrustfully, standing in a pool of blood and casting the shadow of a Demon King. On his desk is a book open to the same scene depicted by the art. End ID] (Described by: @princess-of-purple-prose.)

#orv #orv fanart #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kdj

[cobragardens]

Aziraphale's Ring Is a Queer Symbol

In a previous post I hold forth about the symbolism of the lion rampant on the escutcheon of Aziraphale's signet ring. The upshot is that the golden lion is used by Heaven as a symbol of its threat and its merciless, murderous corporate culture, and I argue that in S3 Aziraphale must subvert this stamp of Heavenly ownership and symbolically redefine the golden lion by summoning the courage to be soft.

Now I've learned some new stuff about how signet rings are worn. Come, sistren, and get nerdy with me.

Aziraphale's ring is one of several we see angels wearing in Good Omens. Here in an indispensably useful post, @indigovigilance lists the known rings of Show Omens angels and those rings' qualities and placement. Note how of the angels who have rings, everyone except Saraqael and Aziraphale wear their rings on their LEFT pinky fingers. There's a reason for this.

Since the medieval period in Britain and Germany, and from there in the U.S., signet rings have been bestowed by professional associations as a sign of membership, particularly at the upper end of society: trade guilds, colleges, hospitals, the Church(es), noble families, and societies like the Freemasons all issue(d) signet rings to some of their members. The traditional placement for signet rings of show professional affiliation is the left pinky finger.

In fact, as it was not socially acceptable in or past the Victorian era for men to wear rings on more than one finger, men who wore signet rings and wedding rings both would have their wedding rings sized to fit the pinky finger below the signet. If a ring had to be moved to preserve masculinity, it wasn't the pinky ring that was going anywhere. Family signets can be worn on any of a number of fingers, but since the Victorian period the men of the British Royal Family (who are from Germany) have been especial sticklers about wearing their signets on their left pinky fingers as well.

So. If you're British and you have a signet ring that's meant to indicate professional affiliation, you wear it on your left pinky.

But Aziraphale wears his signet ring on his RIGHT hand.

Before I offer my opinion on what that means, here's some more fun background on the history and significance of pinky rings in Anglo-American culture:

The Victorian period was when pinky rings started to become associated with queerness.

As fellow members of the Hundred Guineas Club, Oscar Wilde and Aziraphale would likely have been acquaintances.

According to Wikipedia (ibid.):

"During the Victorian era, both single men and women uninterested in pursuing marriage could wear a ring on the little finger of their left hand."

This quickly expanded to a pinky ring on either hand. Here's Wikipedia's picture of farmer and philanthropist Caroline Rose Foster in 1917, the Edwardian era, wearing a pinky ring on her right hand:

Do you smell a euphemism in "uninterested in pursuing marriage"? I do!

By midcentury--so only 30 years after Ms Foster up there--American and British queers, both men and women, were using signet pinky rings specifically to signal queerness to each other.

"For gay men in the 1950’s and 60’s, a way of signaling to others was through the wearing of a signet ring on the pinkie finger."

"During the 1950’s and 60’s signet rings were worn to signify membership of the gay community; both lesbians and homosexual men wore such rings."

The pinky rings @indigovigilance points out Maggie wears may mean she's an angel; they also match her midcentury lesbian style. Devious of the costumers to give her pinky rings on both hands rather than commit to one or the other.

Screenshot by @indigovigilance

To review, there are three reasons a person in Anglo-American culture might wear a pinky ring:

They just feel like it--This can be any kind of ring and can be worn on either hand or both

Professional affiliation--This is a signet ring worn on the left pinky finger

To signal queerness--This is a signet ring and can be worn on either pinky finger

Aziraphale has worn a signet ring on his RIGHT pinky finger at least since he repaired the Eastern "Gate" in the Wall of Eden, so I'm not suggesting that he adopted the 20th-century pinky signet trend to signal his queerness (although as a clockably 'gay' 'man,' Soho fixture, and member of the Hundred Guineas Club, he may well have started it). What I am suggesting is that Aziraphale has been given a ring by Heaven that Heaven intends him to use to show his professional affiliation, but as with the flaming sword he gives away, Aziraphale doesn't use the ring for its intended purpose. By wearing the ring on his right hand, Aziraphale removes the option of interpreting it as a symbol of his professional affiliation with Heaven and renders it strictly a personal ornament. He subverts a symbol of Heavenly menace into an object of beauty and queerness.

I mean queerness in both senses. If a human takes any symbolic notice of his ring, they'll note the signet is on his right hand and conclude Aziraphale is gay. If another angel takes any notice of it, they'll conclude Aziraphale is a bit odd--that he doesn't pay attention to the finer points of how to fit in with the archangels, doesn't do things like other angels do.

In conclusion, pinky signet rings as a queer signal are just the fucking coolest and I vote we bring them back immediately.

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #aziraphale #aziraphale's ring #good omens lgbtq #pinky rings lgbtq #pinky rings as queer flagging #good omens angel rings #saraqael #michael #uriel #sandalphon

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1450 Master E. S. - Lady with a helmet and an empty escutcheon

(Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)

#Master E. S. #1450s #15th century #women

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Autech Nissan Cube Rider, 2008. a version of the Cube with  ·   ·   ·   ·  Exclusive front bumper and grille  ·  Exclusive headlamps  ·  Exclusive sill protectors  ·  Exclusive rear underbody protector  ·  Exclusive Rider sound system (dealer option)  ·  Exclusive seat fabrics  ·  Genuine leather-wrapped steering wheel  ·  Exclusive bright instrument panel moldings  ·  Exclusive inside door handle escutcheons  ·  Exclusive 15" brightly polished aluminum wheels  ·  Exclusive model name emblem But used the standard 1.5 litre engine. Nissan's Autech subsidiary was amalgamated with Nismo is 2022, though the marque is still used Autech no longer exists as an independent division.

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[femblem-emblem-throuses-houses]

Coat of Arms of Kyphon Fraldarius

#i made one for loog so i Had to. #the escutcheon shape is the aegis shield :D #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem 3 houses #fe3h #fe16 #fire emblem fanart #my art #heraldry #kyphon fraldarius #war of the eagle and lion brainrot #the motto is a paraphrased and translated robespierre quote lmao