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A brass warming pan
the cover punch decorated and inscribed around the border THE PAINTERS ARMES., (sic), the centre with a shield device enclosing a chevron between three phoenix heads (rubbed), the flattened wrought iron handle with rounded terminal pierced for suspension, English, 17th century -- 11in. (28cm), 41¼in. (104.8cm) long, overall

Lot Essay

Bromley and Child, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London, Warner and Co, London 1960. Pages 184-88, pl.39.
'Agure a chevron between three phoenix heads erased or beaked gules'.
Granted by Sir Thomas Holme, Clarenceux in 1486. On 1502 united with the Stainers Guild to become the Painter--Stainer Guild. The quartered arms now being: first and fourth 'agure three escutcheons argent second and third as above tender Painters'.

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