[ANSTHRLD] Four trefoils, in cross?
Coblaith Muimnech
Coblaith at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 31 12:51:28 PDT 2010
Jayme the artistically challenged wrote:
> Would the following graphic be an accurate emblazon of four
> trefoils in cross?
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/txmedic/4843688589/
Charges in cross are in their default orientations (like the
escallops in the attached period emblazon, from <http://
daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001430/image_261>) unless some
other is specified.
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I'd blazon what's shown in your image, "in cross four trefoils slips
to center".
I feel it's also important that you know rotating charges in cross in
that fashion is not something that was done in real medieval and
Renaissance heraldry. There's a little discussion of that in one of
my articles, at <http://coblaith.net/Heraldry/Crosses/
ofcharges.html#endtoend>.
By the way, if you're not terribly artistic, you can always borrow
from others. (That's what I do.) I'm sure neither Anton Tirol
<http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001647/image_63> nor
Nicholaus Bertschi <http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001364/
image_75> would mind if you traced his trefoils, for example.
Coblaith Muimnech
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<http://cobliath.net>
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