The coat of arms with its elaborate rococo style mantling has almost no identifiable Chinese precedent. |
The smiling father sports a rifle nestled at his hip and wears a hat emblazoned with a coat of arms. |
He also painted a tondo of the Pieta bearing Philip's coat of arms on the back, and he painted and gilded Sluter's statues. |
Every church building had to display the royal coat of arms on the chancel arch in place of the rood. |
On the center band is a coat of arms with a green-and-red quetzal, the national bird. |
By the later Middle Ages, the right to a coat of arms had become a matter for social pride and strict control. |