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Lot 1110
Four Framed English Coats of Arms
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
All late 18th and early 19th century; including a coat of arms featuring a lion, bear, and woman bearing flags, watercolor, gouache, and gilt paint on vellum, labeled to verso, presented in a burlwood frame (7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.); the Heard family coat of arms, watercolor and gouache on paper, bearing the Latin motto "Naufragus In Portum" inscribed at lower center, labeled to verso, presented in a parcel gilt frame below glass (11 x 9 in.); the Arms of Bevens, Brickenden, Croker, D'Oiley, D'Oyley, Lefray, M'kirby, and Magin, watercolor, gouache, and gilt paint on laid paper, labeled to verso, matted in a parcel gilt frame under glass (9 x 8 1/2 in.); and a coat of arms representing several English families, watercolor, gouache, and gilt paint on vellum, labeled with the families to verso, matted and framed under glass (14 x 11 7/8 in.).

Private Collection, Virginia Beach, Virginia

All with toning, the vellum sheets with waviness, not examined outside the frames.