 | James Harvey Bloom - Seals (Numismatics) - 1906 - 368 pages
...thinks,1 from the happy invention of the seal-engraver, who filled up the spaces at the top and sides of a triangular shield upon a circular seal with foliage or with fanciful animals. Such figures begin to come into fashion early in the fourteenth century, and among them we find birds... | |
 | Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - History - 2007 - 684 pages
...valets de pied, deguisez en ours, en lions, en mores, et en sauvages' (Usage des Armoiries, p. 1x9). " The old romances give us evidence that this custom...numerous examples in which the shields used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were placed between two creatures resembling lizards or dragons.... | |
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The old romances give us evidence that this custom prevailed ; but I think only after the use of supporters had already arisen from another source. "There is really little doubt now that Anstis was quite correct when, in his Aspilogia, he attributed the... 